The British Museum has removed the word #Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints.

The British Museum has removed the word #Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints.

Maps and information boards about ancient Egypt and the seafaring Phoenicians labelled the eastern coast of the Mediterranean as Palestine, and some peoples were described as being “of Palestinian descent”

And so the British Museum has decided to remove that word.

Who do you think made those complaints?

#freepalestine

@vy @Geri

You seem like the person in the room who says "but Hitler was a vegetarian and loved animals".

You appear to demonstrate an immaturity, a naiveté, about the wider context that includes

1. A malevolent group, the UKLFI, pressuring British institutions to make changes in a way that they would not do. The same group that forced a London hospital to be take down childrens art.

2. The ramping up of the genocide of Palestine, its people, culture, its history, its very memory.

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The British Museum has removed the word #Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints.

Maps and information boards about ancient Egypt and the seafaring Phoenicians labelled the eastern coast of the Mediterranean as Palestine, and some peoples were described as being “of Palestinian descent”

And so the British Museum has decided to remove that word.

Who do you think made those complaints?

#freepalestine

@vy @Geri

If the museum wanted to change the names, they would normally do this through a scholarly and consultantive open process.

Not because a nasty evil group like the UKLFI bullied them to do it.

That sets a dangerous precedent.

And that's what you're missing.

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@vy @Geri I’m not religious at all. I was thinking of all those individuals who use religious texts for their justification of abhorrent and genocidal actions.

The British Museum has removed the word #Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints.

Maps and information boards about ancient Egypt and the seafaring Phoenicians labelled the eastern coast of the Mediterranean as Palestine, and some peoples were described as being “of Palestinian descent”

And so the British Museum has decided to remove that word.

Who do you think made those complaints?

#freepalestine

The British Museum has removed the word #Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints.

Maps and information boards about ancient Egypt and the seafaring Phoenicians labelled the eastern coast of the Mediterranean as Palestine, and some peoples were described as being “of Palestinian descent”

And so the British Museum has decided to remove that word.

Who do you think made those complaints?

#freepalestine

@charlesdelavalleepoussin @Geri You appear to represent a common trend for Europeans to believe that making up conspiracy stories about Jews relieves Europeans of blame for Colonialism and Holocaust.

@charlesdelavalleepoussin @Geri You have no idea why they made the decision, you're just making up a story that makes feel angry.

@vy @Geri

Oh but the UKLFI have admitted they did it.

It's on their own website.

You need to grow up.

https://www.uklfi.com/british-museum-reviewing-palestine-terminology-in-galleries-after-audience-testing

@vy @Geri

You seem like the person in the room who says "but Hitler was a vegetarian and loved animals".

You appear to demonstrate an immaturity, a naiveté, about the wider context that includes

1. A malevolent group, the UKLFI, pressuring British institutions to make changes in a way that they would not do. The same group that forced a London hospital to be take down childrens art.

2. The ramping up of the genocide of Palestine, its people, culture, its history, its very memory.

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@Geri Jesus Christ!

@vy @Geri

Thank you for demonstrating to any readers the weaknesses of European liberals on this matter.

@Geri@mastodon.online ..UK seems to now have developed a full illness about Palestine with a rash on every face and fever inside almost every brain?
I would have thought that the name "Farage" would have caused something alike.
What is this obsession? Instead of defending an unstable description of ideas about Palestine and recognizing actual facts they seem to put much effort into useless scaffolding to support the feverish Palestine aversion?
Is everybody mad now?

@charlesdelavalleepoussin @Geri What they said on their website is "UKLFI requested that the Museum review its collections and revise terminology 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." so they asked for that "scholarly" process. Is there something wrong with that? Is it accurate to use the European term "Palestine" for ancient Cannonite cities?

@Geri Who made those complaints? People who object to fake history. The word "Palestine" was used by Roman (European) imperialists for what was left over after their genocide in Israel/Judea. There is no evidence of prior use.

@vy @Geri

What was this scholarly process?

If you weren't so naive you'd realise that letter was a threat.

That group had form.

@charlesdelavalleepoussin @Geri The use of "Palestine" to describe parts of the Levant was in pre-Roman times is a European anachronism and is not accurate.

@kate @Geri Well it's quite easy to understand that Israel led a blackmail operation and now have UK under their control. Kinda like how Russia was able to influence Brexit in UK. UK politicians are always up for highest bidder.

@x41h @kate @Geri and how orchestrated transphobia is trying to erase trans people from public spaces and private groups like Women's Institute. Not as bad as Israel using thermal bombs to disintegrate Palestinians but with similar long term aims.