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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.
The name “Palestine” for the region has been in use for over 1000 years.
But from this article this is relating to:
Information boards in the museum’s ancient Middle East galleries, covering the period from 1500BC to 1700BC.
The change doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
That does make the changes sound reasonable. Good point!
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
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
Well, ofcourse they would do that. A genocide is not complete if you also don’t erase a culture from history and collective memory, just killing and them and forced migration is not enough. And I assume British museum has a lot of Zionist sponsors which is why they were so quick to agree on this.
ethnic cleansing.
Was it because of some Israeli bullshit group?
It was because of some Israeli bullshit group.
Erasing an entire culture and people. Those who are responsible could give adolf hitler advice on genocide. I wonder who it could be? Surly someone whose people have never been subject to an attempt at the same.
I don’t get the hate in the comments. I would also remove Palestine from my house. I don’t want to be bombed indiscriminately by Israel.
That’s pretty heartless and evil
Literally antisemitism if you’re acknolwedging the major players of Semitic languages, culture, and history.
Britain: fast regressing to the XIX century white colonialist mindset which, lets be honest, the never quite fully left
Not that Europe’s Posh Fascist nation was ever as culturally, socially and politically evolved as at least Western Europe, much less Northern Europe and Scandinavia.
Certainly, having lived for around a decade each, first in The Netherlands and after in Britain, I always felt Britain was decades behind The Netherlands in terms of how they looked at and treated people.
The most classist nation in Europe only every paid lip service to the idea that inherently all people are equal and equally deserving.
Jews…
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 1 week ago
What they did is technically correct, Canaanite is the correct term for the time period. The term Palestinian did not yet exist.
But it is certainly no coincidence that “UK Lawyers of Israel” did request that change now.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
‘Levantine’ would have been a more accurate term. The ‘Canaanite’ term is specifically what’s used to differentiate from ‘Hebrews’ in zionism, both before and after Israel was created. Biblically Canaanites are Phoenecians, which are one of many Levantine tribes and city states of the Bronze and Biblical eras.
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 1 week ago
AFAIK it is common practice to call them Canaanites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Didn’t the Bible also say that they were literal giants?
Avicenna@programming.dev 1 week ago
Cultural descendants of Palestinians did exist in Canaan at the time around 1200BC. I doubt that anywhere in that museum you would be able to find information about this though. Because the whole point of this debacle is a childish claim of the form “Our descendants was there first!”. If British Museum had any balls they would make this correction and add the history of Philistines next to it but we all know they wouldn’t do it and why.
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 1 week ago
The text changed in the museum refers to the origins of a specific line of Egyptian kings around 1650 BC. I think neither the history of the Philistines nor the history of the kingdom of Israel is relevant to this.
As to the question if they have the history of Palestine/Israel/Canaan/Levant somewhere else in the museum? I don’t know. If not, they would have a serious knowledge gap there. That topic deserves its own space, not a footnote in the Egyptian section.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week ago
what time period exactly? because Palestine is mentioned during the bronze age collapse. it’s pretty old.
although they refer to a specific group of people that settled a specific area.
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 1 week ago
Apparently it is about the Hyksos, so 1650 - 1550 BC.
The oldest mention of the predecessor term “Peleset” is from 1150 BC.
fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s just Canaanites hating Canaanites hating Canaanites.
Thanks God! 😂