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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

British Museum removes word Palestine' from some displays

In a letter to the museum's director, Nicholas Cullinan, the group wrote: Applying a single name Palestine retrospectively to the entire region, across thousands of years, erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity. It also has the compounding effect of erasing the kingdoms of Israel and of Judea, which emerged from around 1,000BC, and of reframing the origins of the Israelites and Jewish people as erroneously stemming from Palestine.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
4 months ago

Empires tried to erase this queer story from ancient Palestine, but history remembers - LGBTQ Nation

Ancient Palestine contained sacred, gender-fluid religious practices expressed through theatrical festivals, divine possession, and ritual garment transformations.
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