British Museum erases Palestine labels

The British Museum removes the word 'Palestine' from part of its signage after complaints by pro-Israel lawyers

The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from some of its panels and maps in the galleries dedicated to the ancient Near East, a change the institution says is warranted by 'historical accuracy' and because the term is no longer considered neutral, after UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), a voluntary group of lawyers, voiced objections to the use of that designation in contexts spanning millennia and, in their view, applying a single name retrospectively to periods when no such entity existed. The report published on Monday notes that in maps and informational panels in the Ancient Near East galleries the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean was described as Palestine, and that some texts described certain people as of Palestinian descent, a formulation that has been changed in at least one case in the Egypt galleries. The local press places the controversy in the realm of museum labeling, which often condenses debates into a few lines.

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El Pais

A pro-Israel group gets the British Museum to remove the term Palestine from its Middle East gallery

The organization UK Lawyers for Israel protested the "false impression of historical continuity" in using the region's name.

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Shibley Telhami

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"British Museum Removes Word 'Palestine' From Displays Following pro-Israel Lobbying" www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

British Museum removes word 'Palestine' from displays following pro-Israel lobbying

U.K. Lawyers for Israel Told the Museum That Some Maps and Descriptions of Exhibits 'Retroactively Apply the Term "Palestine" to Periods in Which No Such Entity Existed and Risk Obscuring the History ...

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The Guardian

British Museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from some displays

Museum revises labelling on maps and panels, saying term used inaccurately and no longer historically neutral The British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from some of its displays, saying the term was used inaccurately and is no longer historically neutral. Maps and information panels in the museum’s ancient Middle East galleries had referred to the eastern Mediterranean coast as Palestine, with some people described as being “of Palestinian descent”. Continue reading. . .

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• Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians today.
• The British Museum is removing them from history.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." – George Orwell, "1984"
#IsraeliTerroristState #GazaGenocide #history #education #BritishMuseum

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#ErasingHistory

John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 15h

What's that the right-wingers always say about 'erasing history,' whenever one of their displays and racist and colonialist triumphalism are taken down? #Palestine

British Museum removes 'Palestine' from its ancient Middle East displays.

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What's that the right-wingers always say about 'erasing history,' whenever one of their displays and racist and colonialist triumphalism are taken down? #Palestine

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