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A Flag Is Born: what Wikipedia removed

A Flag Is Born was a 1946 Broadway play starring Marlon Brando that advocated for a Jewish homeland in Mandatory Palestine. Through 2010 the opening explained that Holocaust survivors deserved to have their own land where they could live free from oppression and the anti-Semitic tyranny of the outside world. The word does not appear anywhere in the article today; the opening describes only the play’s advocacy for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people. A reader today learns the play argued for a Jewish homeland and not that it explicitly framed the cause as an escape from antisemitic tyranny.

The word “resistance” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • This sentence describing the play’s advocacy for a Jewish homeland was reworded, not lost.
  • The cast listing was reworded with the same names, not lost.
  • The description of Ben Hecht as Hollywood’s most successful screenwriter is gone from the opening.
  • The clause naming antisemitic tyranny as what Holocaust survivors needed to escape is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 369593837):

First edition cover A Flag Is Born was a play promoting the creation of a Jewish State in the ancient land of Israel. It opened on Broadway on September 4, 1946. The cast included Paul Muni , Celia Adler and Marlon Brando . Hollywood’s most successful screenwriter, Ben Hecht was the playwright, it was directed by Luther Adler with music by Kurt Weill . It was produced by the American League for a Free Palestine , an organization headed by Hillel Kook , known in America by the anglicized name Peter Bergson. The play had three principal characters, though several other actors played bit roles. Paul Muni and Celia Adler , major stars at the time, played Tevye and Zelda, survivors of the Treblin…

2025 (revision 1286396780):

Play Program cover. Comparisons to the American Revolution . ( Yehudah Magnes opposed it). A Flag Is Born is a 1946 play that advocated the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people in the ancient Land of Israel —at the time of the play’s release Mandatory Palestine , under British administration. With a cast including Paul Muni , Celia Adler and Marlon Brando , it opened on Broadway on September 4, 1946. It was written by Ben Hecht and directed by Luther Adler , with music by Kurt Weill . A Flag Is Born was produced by the American League for a Free Palestine, an organization headed by Hillel Kook (known in America by the anglicized name Peter Bergson), to raise money for Zionist causes.…

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