If it is more historically correct then why not. I despise what Israel is doing to Palestine like any sane person should, but I see nothing wrong in getting historical names right. I would not be pissed if someone were to change Bizantine Empire with Eastern Roman Empire in a museum exhibition. This is not a win for Israel. Zionist are the one forgetting history by committing genocide.
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As long as they remove the “Israel” part.
It's been replaced by the classical names.
So Israel is there because it seems to have been present as a kingdom, but where we might see Palestine now would either be part of Israel, Judah, or the 'Philistine States' on the southern end which gets confusing.
The museum explained that the term Canaan is now used for the southern Levant during the later second millennium BC, while UN terminology identifies modern boundaries such as Gaza, West Bank, Israel, and Jordan. Curators also plan to use “Palestinian” only as a cultural or ethnographic identifier where historically appropriate
So basically they are rewriting history to say there never was a Palestine to begin with.
Palestine is the Latin term used by the Romans from the greek translation of the Egyptian term used to describe the Philistines. Only the costal area was to be considered “Palestine” before the romans decided to use that term to describe the entire area. To say that the entire area was Palestine is to rewrite history. To create a link between the Philistines and the modern inhabitants of Palestine is also rewriting history.
If I were to call Tuscans the ancient Etruscan people would I not commit the same mistake? The world is full of territories that saw their cultural, religious and ethnic makeup change radically throughout invasions. To identify the correct term to describe a specific period of history is not rewriting history. The Hyksos were not “Palestinian”, and I agree that it just add confusion. If historian have used retroactively the term Palestine to identify the area, I see no issue in revising the terminology to better align with the original context.
EDIT: I would like to add that the romans were the one guilty of rewriting history: the region was called Judea before the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Even if other interpretations were brought as cause for the rename of the land, the timing make it reasonable to say it was renamed to severe the connection between the land and the Jewish people.
They don't care, they'd rewrite history if they could to have existed since the dawn of civilization
Even if they do not care, should historians care with giving correct information to museums visitors?
What. The actual. Fuck.
Insert the turning the calendar to 1984 meme, but unironically
