Petition · Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum
The British Museum has recently removed the word “Palestine” from several displays in its Ancient Middle East galleries, claiming the term is “anachronistic.” This decision is not supported by historical evidence and contributes to a wider pattern of erasing Palestinian presence from public memory.
The term Palestine has been used for over two millennia. It appears in:
Herodotus (5th century BCE) as Palaistinê
Roman administrative records as Syria Palaestina (135 CE)
Byzantine, early Islamic, Crusader, and Ottoman sources
European maps from the medieval period through the 19th century
Please sign the petition:
https://www.change.org/p/erasing-a-word-erases-a-people-reinstate-palestine-in-the-british-museum
