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Where the record is missing. Some gaps are thin coverage, some are events mentioned but not yet added, and some are sealed: the evidence exists but is withheld.
Open and sealed
Thin record
1781 to 1859The older words, before 1860
German had older words for hatred of Jews, such as Judenhass. What they were, and when the new word displaced them, is not on the timeline yet.
Missing a language
From 1860The word in Arabic and Hebrew
How Arabic writing renders the word (معاداة السامية) and Hebrew (אנטישמיות), when each language took it up, and the argument made in Arabic that Arabs are Semites too. None of it is on the timeline yet.
Thin record
1882 to 2014The word from 1882 to 2014
How the word spread into other languages and politics, its use under Nazi rule, and the arguments over it after 1945 are barely recorded here. The 1942 letter to Rashid Ali is the only event so far.
Thin record
1 Aug 1914 to 9 Dec 1917Life inside Palestine during the First World War
Conscription, requisitions, hunger and the 1915 locust plague are barely recorded here yet. Salim Tamari's Year of the Locust, built on the diary of the Jerusalem soldier Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman, is a place to start.
Mentioned but missing
1 Dec 1917 to 31 Dec 1917British capture of Jerusalem, December 1917
Later documents rest on it, but it is not yet an event on the timeline. It needs a primary source.
Thin record
27 Dec 2008 to 26 Aug 2014The Gaza wars of 2008–2009, 2012 and 2014
Three major rounds of fighting between the start of the blockade and the 2018 protests are not on the timeline yet.
Thin record
7 Oct 2023Settler and army violence in the West Bank since October 2023
OCHA publishes running counts of settler attacks and of Palestinians killed and displaced in the West Bank. Each incident, with its source, belongs here.
Mentioned but missing
26 Jan 2024 to 31 Jan 2024Israel's allegations against UNRWA staff and the suspension of donor funding, January 2024
The UN investigation and the independent review of UNRWA answer these allegations, but the allegations themselves are not yet an event on the timeline.
Sealed
30 Nov 1947 to 31 Dec 1949Arab state archives on the 1948 war
A 2002 review of the field noted that no Arab state had opened its archives on the war to researchers, beyond rare authorised access.
Sealed
30 Nov 1947 to 31 Dec 1949Israeli 1948 files resealed by the Defense Ministry
Haaretz reported in 2019 that the Defense Ministry's security department removed and resealed archive documents on 1948, including files historians had already cited.
The longest silences
Stretches of a lane with no recorded event, widest first.
84 years with nothing in Diplomacy & law, between Anglo-Arab committee reports on the McMahon correspondence and Netanyahu's sixth government is sworn in.
78 years with nothing in Origins, between Schlözer names the “Semitic” languages and Steinschneider writes of “antisemitische Vorurteile”.
72 years with nothing in Use & spelling, between A Nazi race official tells Rashid Ali the word is aimed at Jews alone and IHRA asks for “antisemitism” without a hyphen.
72 years with nothing in Land & people, between Displacement of Palestinian Arabs, 1947–1949 and Settlers attack Huwara after two Israeli brothers are killed.
18 years with nothing in Origins, between Steinschneider writes of “antisemitische Vorurteile” and The word “Antisemitismus” enters German politics.
17 years with nothing in Diplomacy & law, between League of Nations confirms the Mandate for Palestine and Anglo-Arab committee reports on the McMahon correspondence.
11 years with nothing in Inside Palestine, between Blockade of Gaza begins after Hamas takes control of the Strip and Photograph of protester Aed Abu Amro at the Gaza fence.
7 years with nothing in Inside Palestine, between Photograph of protester Aed Abu Amro at the Gaza fence and Palestinians killed while seeking food near aid sites and convoys.
5 years with nothing in Use & spelling, between IHRA asks for “antisemitism” without a hyphen and A call to say “Jew hatred” instead.
5 years with nothing in Definitions, between IHRA adopts its working definition and The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism.
4 years with nothing in Use & spelling, between The AP Stylebook drops the hyphen and A US executive order spells it “Anti-Semitism”.
3 years with nothing in War & security, between Great March of Return protests along the Gaza fence and Eleven days of hostilities between Israel and armed groups in Gaza.
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