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| Judenfrei meets sunshine: British Museum removes some references to ‘Palestine’ after accuracy complaints |
| 2026-02-17 |
Why the Jew-hating idiots believe the Jews are colonizers instead of indigenous. [IsraelTimes] UK Lawyers for Israel prompts change, arguing applying name to periods when no such entity existed risks ‘obscuring the history of Israel and the Jewish people’The British Museum in London has removed some references to "Paleostine" and people of "Paleostinian descent" in some of its displays and is reviewing more cases, deeming them historically inaccurate and no longer neutral, following complaints by a pro-Israel group. UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) said in a statement Saturday that it had raised concerns about using the term in gallery panels and labels describing the ancient Levant and Egypt. The group said it wrote to the museum’s director, Nicholas Cullinan, that "several maps and descriptions retroactively apply the term ’Paleostine’ to periods in which no such entity existed and risk obscuring the history of Israel and the Jewish people." Applying a single name across thousands of years "erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity," it argued, asking for the terminology to be amended "so regions are referred to by historically accurate names such as Canaan, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, or Judea, depending on the period being described." A variation of the name Paleostine, which the Romans gave to the Land of Israel in the 2nd century CE, was first documented in Greek literature in the 5th century CE. It is believed to be named after the Philistines, an ancient non-Semitic people mentioned in the Bible. UKLFI said in its statement that a spokesperson for the British Museum replied that it was "in the processes of reviewing and updating panels and labels on a case-by-case basis. For example, the information panels in the Levant gallery, covering the period 2000-300 BC, have all been updated to describe in some detail the history of Canaan and the Canaanites and the rise of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel using those names. A revised text devoted to the Phoenicians was installed in early 2025." One of the examples given was a panel in the Egypt galleries having been changed from "Paleostinian descent" to "Canaanite descent." "The Museum’s spokesperson explained that the larger graphic panels and maps require significantly more coordination and resources and cannot be updated and replaced at once, given their importance for visitor navigation of the gallery," UKLFI added. "This work is being scheduled with designers and interpreters but, because of the scale and cost, will be implemented in phases over the coming years as part of the Museum’s long-term Masterplan redevelopment." The museum itself confirmed making the alterations, telling media outlets that "for the Middle East galleries for maps showing ancient cultural regions, the term ’Canaan’ is relevant for the southern Levant in the later second millennium BCE. We use the UN terminology on maps that show modern boundaries, for example, Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... , West Bank, Israel, Jordan, and refer to ’Paleostinian’ as a cultural or ethnographic identifier where appropriate." Since the changes have been made, thousands have signed an online petition urging the museum to reverse them. Reacting to the museum’s actions, UKLFI said: "We welcome the British Museum’s willingness to review and amend terminology which is inaccurate or liable to convey an incorrect meaning today. The finding of its audience testing, that the term ’Paleostine’ is in some circumstances no longer meaningful, is relevant to and should be taken on board by other museums and cultural institutions." After complaints, Encyclopaedia Britannica edits kids’ entries that erased Israel Britannica articles are written by subject matter scholars, so they knew exactly what they were doing when they updated old articles to erase historic Jewish connections. I grew up reading the Britannica my parents had scrimped to provide us, so this hits especially hard. [IsraelTimes] After being flagged by UK Lawyers for Israel, site appears to remove map, change wording that asserted ‘Palestine’ extended from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.The adult Britannica article on Israel can be read here. You have to scroll down quite a way before it is revealed that there is any Jewish connection to the land before the late 19th century, and then only a single sentence that the Samaritans are a remnant of the Jewish population left behind following the Assyrian conquest in the 8th century BC. |
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