The British Museum has removed the word #Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints.
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Oh but the UKLFI have admitted they did it.
It's on their own website.
You need to grow up.
British Museum Reviewing Palestine Terminology in Galleries after Audience Testing
The British Museum has confirmed that it is reviewing and updating some gallery panels and labels after “Audience testing has shown that the historic use of the term Palestine … is in some circumstances no longer meaningful.” Concerns were raised by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) about historically
UK LAWYERS FOR ISRAEL (www.uklfi.com)
@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?
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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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@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.
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@Geri Jesus Christ!
@JustinMac84 @Geri eh? How he could be involved if the actual people making the complaints, Jews, were the ones who murdered Him.
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@charlesdelavalleepoussin @Geri I am for historical accuracy in museum exhibitions. If that is weakness, so be it.
