Association United Kingdom Abogados for Israel have got the British Museum to remove the word Palestine exhibitions in the ancient Near East.
The reason for his question was the use of this term to describe regions and civilizations that existed before the definition of the word Palestine, reports EFE.
Maps and information panels about ancient Egypt and Phoenician sailors refer to the eastern Mediterranean coast as Palestine, and some people were described as being of “Palestinian origin,” according to the journal. TheTelegraph.
Among these issues, the Conservatives acknowledged that the term was not “meaningful” as a historical geographic term, a decision that comes amid debate over ancestral land claims in the region.
Some exhibits in Egypt have been edited to remove references to Palestine and have plans to ensure that the deadline does not occur add to the diary in other informative panels.
In a letter to museum director Nicholas Cullinan, the group of abogados said they were “applying a single name – Palestine – retrospectively to the entire region, for thousands of years, erases historical change and creates a false impression of continuity”.
“Además has the multiplier effect of the gushing kingdom of Israel and Judea that arose from the red year 1000 BC, and to re-establish the origin of the Israelites and the Jewish people as they were erroneously derived from Palestinehe added.
“The terminology described in the previously described articles suggests the existence of an ancient and contiguous area called Palestine,” the group added.
Palestine was converted to a common and neutral geographical term for the southern region of the Levant in the late 19th century The museum has now accepted that the term has lost its original neutrality.
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