British Museum removes Palestine label
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The British Museum removed the word "Palestine" from some ancient Near East gallery displays after UK Lawyers for Israel complained the label was anachronistic, the museum said.
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Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum
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February 16, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Please sign this petition against the British Museum’s shameful capitulation to Zionist pressure to remove references to Palestine. c.org/7TmqTJQCKV
by Peter Murphy
• Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians today.
• The British Museum is removing them from history.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." – George Orwell, "1984"
#IsraeliTerroristState #GazaGenocide #history #education #BritishMuseum
• The British Museum is removing them from history.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." – George Orwell, "1984"
#IsraeliTerroristState #GazaGenocide #history #education #BritishMuseum
February 16, 2026 at 1:25 PM
• Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians today.
• The British Museum is removing them from history.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." – George Orwell, "1984"
#IsraeliTerroristState #GazaGenocide #history #education #BritishMuseum
• The British Museum is removing them from history.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." – George Orwell, "1984"
#IsraeliTerroristState #GazaGenocide #history #education #BritishMuseum
What's that the right-wingers always say about 'erasing history,' whenever one of their displays and racist and colonialist triumphalism are taken down? #Palestine
February 16, 2026 at 12:23 PM
"British Museum Removes Word 'Palestine' From Displays Following pro-Israel Lobbying" www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...
British Museum removes word 'Palestine' from displays following pro-Israel lobbying
U.K. Lawyers for Israel Told the Museum That Some Maps and Descriptions of Exhibits 'Retroactively Apply the Term "Palestine" to Periods in Which No Such Entity Existed and Risk Obscuring the History ...
www.haaretz.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM
"British Museum Removes Word 'Palestine' From Displays Following pro-Israel Lobbying" www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...
Reposted by David Webster
What's that the right-wingers always say about 'erasing history,' whenever one of their displays and racist and colonialist triumphalism are taken down? #Palestine
February 16, 2026 at 12:12 PM
What's that the right-wingers always say about 'erasing history,' whenever one of their displays and racist and colonialist triumphalism are taken down? #Palestine
Reposted by Steven H. Seggie
In case you're wondering, the Greens 4 Palestine motion includes such treats as the Soviet "Zionism is racism" and the full batshit internet crank "ARabS aRE sEMitEs acTUalLY".
They're so cooked, and so is Polanski eventually.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/greens-leade...
They're so cooked, and so is Polanski eventually.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/greens-leade...
February 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM
In case you're wondering, the Greens 4 Palestine motion includes such treats as the Soviet "Zionism is racism" and the full batshit internet crank "ARabS aRE sEMitEs acTUalLY".
They're so cooked, and so is Polanski eventually.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/greens-leade...
They're so cooked, and so is Polanski eventually.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/greens-leade...