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.
If a group of lawyers told me I can’t 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 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. This is also another proof as to why “billionaire charities” are just tax evading methods to use insane amounts of money for attaching strings and their philanthropy is just pure bullshit.
ethnic cleansing.
Was it because of some Israeli bullshit group?
It was because of some Israeli bullshit group.
The British Museum needs a proper relootig, honestly.
As if British archeology needed to be shittier.
Ahem Elgin Marbles.
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.
Literally antisemitism if you’re acknolwedging the major players of Semitic languages, culture, and history.
Kind of the purpose of a museum; no?
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 when you consider the fact that a powerful Israeli activist group is forcing the change while the people of Palestine are being systematically slaughtered and erased.
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.
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