Israel–Palestine
Zionism
The English article's framing moved away from the other-language editions during a major rewrite.
Candidate only — not a conclusion.
Overview
The English article's framing moved away from the other-language editions during a major rewrite.
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Edit-war intensity
high 131,747 conflict weight over 12,060 revisions.
High mutual-revert activity (edit-wars). Context only — contested ≠ biased.
Current text: median age 1.4 yr · 89.1% authored in the last 3 years · top-10 editors wrote 74.6% of it (404 distinct editors). Descriptive context only.
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How the editions frame it
How language editions frame the same subject (critical / neutral / sympathetic). Gaps are a signal to inspect, not a conclusion.
Across editions, the framing differ sharply (divergence 1.67 on a 0–2 scale).
| en | he | ar | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel | |||
| en · Israel — Zionism was the main force behind the creation of the State of Israel in 1948... During the war, Israel expanded its territory to control over 78% of former Mandatory Palestine. | |||
| he · Israel — ממשיכה הציונות לפעול לתמיכה בישראל, להבטחת קיומה ולחיזוקה — descriptive of Zionism's aims rather than framing Israel itself | |||
| ar · Israel — لإنشاء إثنوقراطية يهودية في فلسطين... وحصرت حق تقرير المصير فيها للقومية اليهودية وحدها | |||
| Palestinians | |||
| en · Palestinians — Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible... After the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight | |||
| he · Palestinians — Palestinians are not mentioned in the passage | |||
| ar · Palestinians — عبر حرب التطهير العرقي لفلسطين 1947–1948... وتسببت في نزوح العديد من الفلسطينيين، ثم إنكار حقهم في العودة | |||
| Zionism | |||
| en · Zionism — Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible... arguing that the Jewish claim outweighed that of the Palestinian Arab population. | |||
| he · Zionism — שורשי הציונות נעוצים במניעים ובערכים עתיקי-יומין... השכילו הציונים לעשות שימוש פורה... בניית חברת מופת, המבוססת על צדק חברתי ושוויון — presents Zionism's aims and self-conception in affirmative, movement-internal terms without countervailing perspectives | |||
| ar · Zionism — سعت لإنشاء دولة قومية خاصّة لهم باستعمار بلاد خارج اوروبا، ومضت عبر حرب التطهير العرقي لفلسطين | |||
criticalneutralsympatheticabsent ! = departs from neutral · click a cell for the evidence quote
Do the editions agree on facts?
Whether editions agree on load-bearing facts (counts, categories). Contradictions — especially ones later corrected — are worth checking.
| factual question | now |
|---|---|
| In what year and city was the First Zionist Congress held, and who convened it? | agree |
| All agree 1897 Basel; en/he credit Herzl, ar omits convener but consistent. | |
| In what geographic region did the Zionist movement seek to establish a Jewish homeland? | agree |
| All refer to Palestine/Land of Israel; ar adds Argentina as alternative proposal. | |
| Approximately when did the modern political Zionist movement emerge? | agree |
| All say late 19th century in Central/Eastern Europe. | |
Shared-source overlap (context only, skewed by edition language): now: 0.05.
What changed, and when
Side-by-side before / after of the English article around its heaviest rewrite windows.
The article was heavily rewritten at these pivots. Open one to read the before → after as tracked changes.
What the sourcing changed
How the article's own citations changed from → to across the rewrite — domains added or dropped. Composition only; no source is rated.
2024-07-01 → 2026-07-01 (across the L1 pivot ~2024-07-01). References 385 → 195; distinct domains 121 → 94.
Citation-type mix: book 48%, web 27%, journal 17%, news 8% → book 55%, journal 24%, web 10%, news 10%, report 1%.
| source added / grown | from → to |
|---|---|
| benyehuda.org | 0 → 6 |
| forward.com | 1 → 6 |
| books.google.com | 106 → 110 |
| google.com | 0 → 3 |
| middleeasteye.net | 0 → 3 |
| nli.org.il | 0 → 3 |
| encyclopedia.ushmm.org | 0 → 2 |
| besacenter.org | 0 → 2 |
| link.springer.com | 0 → 2 |
| nybooks.com | 0 → 2 |
| thenation.com | 0 → 2 |
| archive.newpol.org | 0 → 2 |
| source dropped / reduced | from → to |
|---|---|
| jstor.org | 38 → 2 |
| archive.org | 19 → 5 |
| jewishvirtuallibrary.org | 10 → 0 |
| britannica.com | 7 → 0 |
| jewsagainstzionism.com | 4 → 0 |
| amazon.com | 4 → 0 |
| jewishencyclopedia.com | 4 → 0 |
| jewish-american-society-for-historic-preservation.org | 4 → 0 |
| ijsn.net | 3 → 0 |
| brill.com | 4 → 1 |
| indianmuslims.info | 2 → 0 |
| mondediplo.com | 2 → 0 |
Domains counted from citation markup (archive links unwrapped to the original source).
The exact Wikipedia revisions each finding was computed from, so anyone can verify. Wikidata Q42388.
| edition | title | revision | timestamp | prose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| en | Zionism | rev 1363064629 | 2026-07-07T20:44:31Z | 134,386 |
| he | ציונות | rev 43538175 | 2026-07-05T11:46:37Z | 51,228 |
| ar | صهيونية | rev 75814026 | 2026-07-05T18:00:54Z | 52,571 |