If a group of lawyers told me I can talk about people from a region they don’t like I’d laugh and ask if they want to lose their licenses to practice law
Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays
zabadoh@ani.social 1 week ago
The changes have been made following audience research, and after concerns were raised by UK Lawyers for Israel, a voluntary association of lawyers.
It sounds like the exhibits’ text was politicized by this group.
The name “Palestine” for the region has been in use for over 1000 years.
The historian Herodotus is believed to have made the first textual mention of Palestine in the fifth century BC.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 week ago
gandhibobandhi@feddit.org 1 week ago
But from this article this is relating to:
The change doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
zabadoh@ani.social 1 week ago
That does make the changes sound reasonable. Good point!
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What about saying “present day Palestine” or “present day Iran”? That helps people understand relative to what locations are called today.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not when you consider the fact stated above that an powerful Israeli activist group is forcing the change while the people of Palestine are being systematically slaughtered and erased
gandhibobandhi@feddit.org 1 week ago
The “powerful Israeli group” made a complaint according to the article, they didn’t “force” anything. And apparently it was a valid complaint.
It doesn’t seem ethical for a museum to reject valid complaints from certain people because you don’t like the government of the country they’re from.