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The following sentence from this article, which makes an assertion about the "motives" of the Birthright Israel organization, is not based on any factual information and expresses an anti-Birthright point of view:

"The name 'Birthright Unplugged' is a spin on the Birthright Israel program, whose name implies that Jews have the exclusive rights to own the Holy Land and to reside in it." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenrachel06 (talk • contribs) 04:34, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Three sources there now, think tag should be removed. --Ponox (talk) 00:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

removing NGO Monitor 'reactions' section

There was a part in this article which asserted that the Birthright Unplugged tour was supported by radical organizations, the only reference for this was from NGO Monitor. One look at NGO Monitor's page shows that this is not an objective source nor a credible news source. From Misplaced Pages's entry on NGO Monitor:

" Editing Misplaced Pages The on-line communications editor of NGO Monitor, Arnie Draiman, was indefinitely banned from editing articles about the Israeli-Arab conflict for biased editing, concealing his place of work and using a second account in a way that is forbidden by Misplaced Pages policy. Draiman was a major contributor to the articles of his employers NGO Monitor and Gerald Steinberg, and performed hundreds of edits of human rights organizations, such as B'Tselem, the New Israel Fund, Human Rights Watch and many others, to which NGO Monitor's president, Professor Gerald Steinberg, is opposed. " — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.145.92 (talk) 18:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:

This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:

1. There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
2. It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given
3. In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.

Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:52, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Debresser

Your edit doesn't make any sense, you said: "Sorry, but if those villages are ancestral, then so is Israel. Use same yardstick for both sides." https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Birthright_Unplugged&diff=638393093&oldid=638388953

One side is Palestinian refugees who fled from Palestine. So its their ancestral villages.

The other side are Jews who could be from all countries around the world with no historical ties to the holy land. Converts and peoples that converted to Judaism. Your revert is therefor not legitimate. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 20:17, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

I'd like to disagree with both your arguments.

1. The historical ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel are further back in history than the ties of Palestinians to the same. On the other hand, a. the Palestinians never had a state of their own, unlike the Jewish people, and b. as a people they haven't lived in the area for much longer than a century, while the Jewish people as a people has lived there for millennia.
2. Converts are only a small part of the Jewish nation. In addition, they become part of the people, and it does not make much sense to distinguish between them and other Jews, especially since after a few generations, they themselves won't even be aware of the fact that they descent from converts. In addition, likewise the Palestinian people knows many foreign additions. I know personally of a few Russian women and of Jewish women who married into Palestinian families, and that is precisely the same idea as converts to Judaism. Debresser (talk) 19:29, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

By the way, I am perfectly happy with today's IP edit. Debresser (talk) 19:30, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

There is no evidence that all Jews are historically connected to the land. There is lots of evidence that Jews that came out of Europe and Ethiopia are not descendents of the ancient Jews. So that is a very large portion of Jews. So "ancestral homeland" doesn't make sense. Also, all Palestinian refugees are originally from Palestine, 100% of them. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 18:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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