Israel–Palestine
Palestine
2 questions out of 3 have compatible detail differences. Language openings contradict each other on something important.
Something to inspect — not a judgment of bias or bad faith.
Overview
Use this briefing to choose what to inspect. The tabs contain the underlying comparisons.
Open the live English Wikipedia article ↗The exact rewrite detector loaded 44 of 45 expected snapshots from the public revision history. It withholds the result rather than treating gaps in readable history as evidence.
Different websites cited: 111 → 247. We do not rate those sites. See Citations.
3 configured questions checked in more than one language. See Facts.
Compared around the rewrite window. See Framing.
Did editors fight over it?
The page was not dominated by back-and-forth undoing. A quiet rewrite can still matter — it just means few people fought it on the page. About 5,673 recorded revisions in the measure.
Who wrote today’s text?
Half of the wording still on the page is about 2.3 years old or newer. 67.5% was written in the last 3 years. The ten most active accounts wrote 64.2% of what is there now (authorship is more spread out; 472 different accounts overall). Snapshot data on this page runs through 2026-07-01.This is background only — a small group of writers is common on specialist pages.
Available evidence: Citations, Framing, Facts, Versions.
Not available in this export: Rewrite, Vocabulary. Missing coverage is not a negative finding.
Rewrite analysis has incomplete source coverage
The exact rewrite detector loaded 44 of 45 expected snapshots from the public revision history. It withholds the result rather than treating gaps in readable history as evidence.
Persistence-weighted changeThe share of wording lost, weighted so text that survived more snapshots counts more. by interval
Each row reports established wording lost, standing wording gained, and paired change as a replacement lead. The bar shows loss for continuity with earlier reports. Below-floor anomalies remain descriptive evidence but cannot receive exact confirmation. A coverage gap is shown descriptively but excluded from detector decisions. Candidate-window labels report the exact revision-level decision for the broader window containing that interval.
How the detector reached this state
- 1 · Coarse scanA snapshot comparison that finds candidate windows for closer inspection.UnavailableNo current coarse result is available in this export.
- 2 · Interval scoringNo bars availableNo interval-level measurements are available in this export.
- 3 · Exact checkA revision-level test of whether a candidate window's durable spine collapsed.UnavailableNo current revision-level decision can be published.
- No interval——Data missing: verdict unavailable
No interval-level measurements are available in this export.
How the footnotes changed
How the article's own footnotes changed across the rewrite: which websites and books were cited more or less. We only show the mix — we do not rate sources as good or bad.
Looking at 2014-01-01 → 2026-07-01 (across the L1 pivot ~2015-07-01): 235 websites were cited more (or newly), 79 less (or dropped). Number of footnotes: 288 → 489. Different websites: 111 → 247.
Mix of citation types: web 40%, book 28%, news 26%, journal 7% → web 66%, news 15%, book 13%, journal 5%, report 2%, press 0%.
| cited more often | before → after |
|---|---|
| aljazeera.com | 2 → 19 |
| theguardian.com | 0 → 13 |
| archive.org | 2 → 9 |
| pcbs.gov.ps | 1 → 8 |
| apnews.com | 0 → 6 |
| edition.cnn.com | 1 → 7 |
| un.org | 6 → 12 |
| english.wafa.ps | 2 → 8 |
| reuters.com | 3 → 8 |
| ochaopt.org | 0 → 5 |
| cia.gov | 3 → 8 |
| press.un.org | 0 → 4 |
| cited less often | before → after |
|---|---|
| books.google.com | 14 → 7 |
| digicoll.library.wisc.edu | 7 → 0 |
| haaretz.com | 8 → 3 |
| books.google.ca | 4 → 0 |
| unispal.un.org | 5 → 2 |
| icj-cij.org | 7 → 4 |
| domino.un.org | 3 → 0 |
| telegraph.co.uk | 2 → 0 |
| huffingtonpost.com | 2 → 0 |
| khaleejtimes.com | 2 → 0 |
| al-bab.com | 2 → 0 |
| thejerusalemfund.org | 2 → 0 |
Counted from the article’s own footnotes. We list domains only — we do not call any source trustworthy or untrustworthy.
Cross-language lead comparison
How the opening of the article presents the topic in different languages. Disagreement is a reason to read carefully, not a final answer.
Across this narrow window, the English lead remained textually unchanged, so no genuine temporal shift occurred within EN itself. However, comparing EN to other editions reveals persistent and, in one case, newly widened divergences: French shifted during this window from calling Palestine a 'non-member observer state' to explicitly downgrading it to a 'proto-État,' moving further from English's 'partially recognized de jure sovereign state' framing. Hebrew's edit added the loaded term 'terror organizations' to describe Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a framing absent from English. Arabic's description of Palestine as a non-independent, aspirational entity contradicts English's sovereign-state framing, and this contradiction persisted unchanged across the window. Greek showed no substantive lead changes in this period.“
Compared matched historical revisions around the confirmed rewrite from 2015-07-01 to 2016-01-01.
Languages compared: en, ar, he, fr, el.
Version receipts: en: en before / en after · ar: ar before / ar after · he: he before / he after · fr: fr before / fr after · el: el before / el after
| topic | how they compare | English change | other language(s) change | languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statehood status: partially recognized state vs. aspirational/proto-state concept | English moved away | Before: The State of Palestine ( ), also known simply as Palestine, is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East. “is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East” After: The State of Palestine ( ), also known simply as Palestine, is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East. “is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East” | Before: La Palestine... est un État observateur non-membre de l'ONU situé au Proche-Orient “est un État observateur non-membre de l'ONU situé au Proche-Orient” After: La Palestine... est un proto-État du Proche-Orient “est un proto-État du Proche-Orient” | FR, AR, HE |
| Terminology for Islamic militant groups (Hamas, Islamic Jihad) | parallel change | Before: (no equivalent passage) “no quotation” After: (no equivalent passage) “no quotation” | Before: וארגונים אסלאמיים שאינם כלולים באש"ף, כמו הארגונים חמאס והג'יהאד האיסלאמי “כמו הארגונים חמאס והג'יהאד האיסלאמי” After: וארגונים אסלאמיים שאינם כלולים באש"ף, כמו ארגוני הטרור חמאס והג'יהאד האיסלאמי “כמו ארגוני הטרור חמאס והג'יהאד האיסלאמי” | HE |
| Characterization of State of Palestine's independence/statehood (AR: undefined political entity vs EN: partially recognized sovereign state) | difference persisted | Before: The State of Palestine ( ), also known simply as Palestine, is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East. “is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East” After: The State of Palestine ( ), also known simply as Palestine, is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East. “is a partially recognized de jure sovereign state in the Middle East” | Before: دولة فلسطين هو مصطلح يشير إلى كيانات سياسية سالفة في فلسطين... لم تكن أي من تلك الكيانات مستقلة حتى الآن “لم تكن أي من تلك الكيانات مستقلة حتى الآن” After: دولة فلسطين هو مصطلح يشير إلى كيانات سياسية سالفة في فلسطين... لم تكن أي من تلك الكيانات مستقلة حتى الآن “لم تكن أي من تلك الكيانات مستقلة حتى الآن” | AR |
Differences are invitations to read both sides — not a score of who is right.
Do the languages agree on basic facts?
Simple factual questions checked in several languages. Editions may agree, differ, contradict, or not say enough to tell. That is not a claim about who is right.
On the latest check, 3 questions produced: 0 contradict · 2 compatible difference · 1 agree · 0 not enough said.
| question | today |
|---|---|
| When did the British Mandate for Palestine begin and end? | differ |
| en gives start dates (1920/1922) with no end; he gives end date (May 15, 1948) with no start; ar states neither; not contradictory, just partial/complementary. | |
| What is the stated origin of the name 'Palestine'? | differ |
| All link name to Philistines/Greek usage, but he adds Semitic root and Roman renaming detail not mentioned in en/ar; differing emphasis, not incompatible. | |
| What was the approximate population and its religious/ethnic composition in Palestine circa 1900? | agree |
| All three editions state this information is not provided in the passage. | |
These checks are starting points for a reader. They do not decide who is right.
Versions we used
These are the exact public Wikipedia versions behind the checks on this page. Open any link to read the original. Wikidata item: Q219060.
| language | comparison point | article title | version | when | text used (chars) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| en | before | Palestine | open version 682622162 | 2015-09-24T22:12:56Z | 3,000 |
| en | after | Palestine | open version 682622387 | 2015-09-24T22:15:04Z | 3,000 |
| ar | before | دولة فلسطين | open version 17047680 | 2015-09-19T17:04:12Z | 1,167 |
| ar | after | دولة فلسطين | open version 17150090 | 2015-09-29T22:52:25Z | 1,167 |
| he | before | מדינה פלסטינית | open version 17372482 | 2015-08-18T15:30:25Z | 713 |
| he | after | מדינה פלסטינית | open version 17571209 | 2015-10-05T20:08:12Z | 717 |
| fr | before | Palestine (État) | open version 118734791 | 2015-09-17T19:29:31Z | 854 |
| fr | after | Palestine (État) | open version 119734873 | 2015-10-22T21:26:39Z | 847 |
| el | before | Κράτος της Παλαιστίνης | open version 5422023 | 2015-09-13T06:50:25Z | 1,060 |
| el | after | Κράτος της Παλαιστίνης | open version 5538472 | 2015-11-20T19:05:19Z | 1,060 |