The source for this "alternative" name is from a 1939 Life Magazine, but there, it is written ("Palestine pioneer"), meaning, it is NOT the alternative name of the movement, for if it was, it would have been written Palestine pioneers since the than Life Magazine editors are seemingly more aware of the use of brackets and inverted commas than the Wikipedia editors. In fact the word pioneer was widely applied during the period from late 19th century when it became popularised based on the descriptions of the "opening" of the American West, and right to the Second World War, all in the sense of Pioneering (Scouting), but occasionally politicized. BILU, more correctly BYL"U, was largely a Jewish youth movement that undertook similar functionality: moving to new country, setting up homesteads, using agricultural technology, etc. The use of "Palestine" in the source is of course referring to the British Mandate Palestine, since the BILU members used either Russian or Hebrew and, being Zionist, would have used Eretz Yisrael. It is disingenuous to give the movement an English "alternative" name while few if any of its members actually spoke the language! Koakhtzvigad ( talk) 14:08, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 07:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Bilu → BYL"U — From Bilu -> BYL"U to reflect that it is an abbreviation, and the initials of the transliterated Hebrew name. Koakhtzvigad ( talk) 14:08, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
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The source for this "alternative" name is from a 1939 Life Magazine, but there, it is written ("Palestine pioneer"), meaning, it is NOT the alternative name of the movement, for if it was, it would have been written Palestine pioneers since the than Life Magazine editors are seemingly more aware of the use of brackets and inverted commas than the Wikipedia editors. In fact the word pioneer was widely applied during the period from late 19th century when it became popularised based on the descriptions of the "opening" of the American West, and right to the Second World War, all in the sense of Pioneering (Scouting), but occasionally politicized. BILU, more correctly BYL"U, was largely a Jewish youth movement that undertook similar functionality: moving to new country, setting up homesteads, using agricultural technology, etc. The use of "Palestine" in the source is of course referring to the British Mandate Palestine, since the BILU members used either Russian or Hebrew and, being Zionist, would have used Eretz Yisrael. It is disingenuous to give the movement an English "alternative" name while few if any of its members actually spoke the language! Koakhtzvigad ( talk) 14:08, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 07:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Bilu → BYL"U — From Bilu -> BYL"U to reflect that it is an abbreviation, and the initials of the transliterated Hebrew name. Koakhtzvigad ( talk) 14:08, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 February 2023 and 11 May 2023. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Middlebury2026,
Beachpineapples (
article contribs). Peer reviewers:
Emmacmckee,
HonchoMichael123.
— Assignment last updated by Dolly City ( talk) 20:02, 3 May 2023 (UTC)