Not when you consider the fact stated above that an powerful Israeli activist group is forcing the change while the people of Palestine are being systematically slaughtered and erased
If a group of lawyers told me I can’t talk about people from a region they don’t like I’d laugh and ask if they want to lose their licenses to practice law
It sounds like the exhibits’ text was politicized by this group.
The name “Palestine” for the region has been in use for over 1000 years.
But from this article this is relating to:
The change doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. It wouldn’t make sense to refer to Ancient Rome as “Italy” or Ancient Persia as “Iran” either.
That does make the changes sound reasonable. Good point!
What about saying “present day Palestine” or “present day Iran”? That helps people understand relative to what locations are called today.
Not when you consider the fact stated above that an powerful Israeli activist group is forcing the change while the people of Palestine are being systematically slaughtered and erased
The “powerful Israeli group” made a complaint according to the article, they didn’t “force” anything. And apparently it was a valid complaint.
It doesn’t seem ethical for a museum to reject valid complaints from certain people because you don’t like the government of the country they’re from.
If a group of lawyers told me I can’t talk about people from a region they don’t like I’d laugh and ask if they want to lose their licenses to practice law