Das British Museum entfernt „Palästina“ aus den antiken Ausstellungen im Nahen Osten

Well, it started with the Brits giving the land to the Jews after WW2.

“A British Museum spokesperson said: “For the Middle East galleries, for maps showing ancient cultural regions, the term ‘Canaan’ is relevant for the southern Levant in the later second millennium BC.”

Stuff like this makes me feel like working at the British museum would be thankless as hell in the sense that no matter what you do a bunch of overly sensitive left wingers freaks out.

90% of the comments are missing the point, palestine and claims to land have become key to current political conflict. Palestine has been removed so that they do not falsely legitmatism this claim.

Archaeologists and historians arguements do not reinforce ethnic claims to land because peoples, nation states, and ethnic groups are cultural concepts that change over time. Boarders were not fixed in the past and the nation state is not a concept that can be imposed on the past as its not something that is universial or understood outside of the modern day. However, political actors can easily used them for that reason by delibrately misrepresenting them, especially if we arent careful with our language. This move makes that more difficult.

A wise decision.