The British Museum has quietly removed the word "Palestine" from several displays in its Ancient Middle East galleries. The official explanation is that the term was "anachronistic."
But history and context tell a different story.
A Name With More Than Two Thousand Years of History The name Palaistinê appears in Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. The Romans renamed the region Syria Palaestina in 135 CE. Byzantine, early Islamic, Crusader, and Ottoman sources all used variations of the name. European maps from the medieval period through the 19th century consistently label the region as Palestine.
And in Britain's own cultural canon, the word appears in Shakespeare's Othello - a reminder that "Palestine" has long been part of English literary and historical consciousness.
This is not a modern invention. It is one of the oldest continuously used geographic names in the region.
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This erasure was due to pressure from UK Lawyers for Israel:
Fresh from getting a hospital to take down artwork by children from Gaza, "UK Lawyers for Israel" has now got British Museum to remove references to Palestine
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on February 15, 2026, 9:41 pm