EveryClaim¶
The history behind today's headlines — every claim verified.
Check a Claim Common Questions Ask the Wiki
Online, the loudest claim usually wins — even when it's false. What spreads is set by what grabs attention, not by what's true. EveryClaim is built to fix that. Every fact here is tagged with the evidence behind it. When experts truly disagree, we say so. And we hold one standard for every side — including the claims our own readers might like to hear.
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Check a claim
Paste something you saw online and get a verdict with the evidence behind it.
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The questions people argue about
Straight answers to 45 of the most-argued questions: genocide, apartheid, UNRWA, "from the river to the sea," and more.
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The region's key players
A profile of every major player, each one judged by the same standard.
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How a word becomes a weapon
How loaded words — genocide, apartheid, colonial, terrorist, antisemite — get used as weapons in a fight.
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New here? Start from the top
The 5-minute overview, the timeline, and the full table of contents.
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The Salience Test
Why some tragedies get all the attention while bigger ones are ignored — and the facts you rarely hear.
What this is¶
We start where the history is most twisted by propaganda: Israel, the Middle East, and Jewish history — from the Ottoman Empire to this year's headlines. But the same method works on any history propaganda touches. So you'll also find the wars in Sudan and Yemen by verified numbers, the slave trades, the persecution of minorities across the Christian and Muslim worlds, and how big institutions really work — the UN, universities, campaign money, and foreign aid. Before we launched, we fact-checked ourselves, found about 390 mistakes, fixed every one, and published the list.
How verification works — the confidence tags
Every fact on the site carries a tag that names its evidence:
- [VERIFIED via primary sources] — archival records, treaties, census data, archaeology
- [DOCUMENTED via multiple independent sources] — two or more separate sources that didn't coordinate
- [SCHOLARLY CONSENSUS] — what most scholars agree on
- [ESTIMATED] — a best-estimate range, drawn from named sources
- [PARTIALLY DISPUTED] — the majority view, but with real disagreement; we give both sides
- [ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK] — a way of thinking about a topic, marked so it's never mistaken for a fact
We hold the same standard for every side of every question. When a common claim failed the check, we corrected it or removed it — see how we verify and the public corrections log.
What it does — and what it does not
It does: give you a fact-checked timeline; track the shrinking of the region's religious minorities with sourced numbers; treat both 1948 displacements — about 850,000 Jews forced from Arab lands and 600,000–750,000 Palestinians — with equal care; and test every side's story for propaganda, including the sides it might be expected to favor.
It does not: play down either people's loss or identity; claim one group's history cancels out the other's; push a political solution; or print any claim it can't source.
Want a guided path? How to read this site lays out routes based on how much time you have. EveryClaim is anonymous by design, free to share, and built to be checked — about the project.