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What they did is technically correct, Canaanite is the correct term for the time period. The term Palestinian did not yet exist.
BUT it is certainly no coincidence that "UK Lawyers of Israel" did request that change now.
'Levantine' would have been a more accurate term. The 'Canaanite' term is specifically what's used to differentiate from 'Hebrews' in zionism, both before and after Israel was created. Biblically Canaanites are Phoenecians, which are one of many Levantine tribes and city states of the Bronze and Biblical eras.
AFAIK it is common practice to call them Canaanites:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
Not disputing that, but even in that section of explanatory text it uses 'Levantine peoples'.
Well Levantine is the broader term, so you need it to define the more specific term Canaanite.
It's a broader term that is no less accurate. But it is also one more removed from political connotations since this is not just about using the term 'Canaanite' as it is also changing it from 'Palestinian.'
Changing 'Palestinian' to 'Canaanite' in 2026 specifically means something more given the Israelite-Canaanite context.
It's either malicious or stupid, and evidence is tending to the former for the group that sought the change and the latter for the museum.
Didn't the Bible also say that they were literal giants?
Also that people can be resurrected, that matter can be duplicated and all sorts of other bullshit
They had food replicators and teleporters back then? Things have really gone downhill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_the_multitude
Some say what they were so large you could crawl into their anuses and use them as a type of motorcade. Giddy up.
Cultural descendants of Palestinians did exist in Canaan at the time around 1200BC. I doubt that anywhere in that museum you would be able to find information about this though. Because the whole point of this debacle is a childish claim of the form "Our descendants was there first!". Given that kingdom of Israel was created around 1200BC it is no wonder they (Zionists) are flailing arms like spoiled infants like they always do and particularly obsessing about this exhibition that covers a date range somewhat before this.
If British Museum had any balls they would make this correction and add the history of Philistines next to it but we all know they wouldn't do it and why.
The text changed in the museum refers to the origins of a specific line of Egyptian kings around 1650 BC. I think neither the history of the Philistines nor the history of the kingdom of Israel is relevant to this.
As to the question if they have the history of Palestine/Israel/Canaan/Levant somewhere else in the museum? I don't know, but I would hope so. If not, they would have a serious knowledge gap there. That topic deserves its own space, not a footnote in the Egyptian section.
It's just Canaanites hating Canaanites hating Canaanites.
Thanks God! 😂
what time period exactly? because Palestine is mentioned during the bronze age collapse. it's pretty old.
although they refer to a specific group of people that settled a specific area.
Apparently the panel in the museum is about the Hyksos, so 1650 - 1550 BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyksos
The oldest mention of the predecessor term "Peleset" is from 1150 BC. And the actual term "Palestine" appeared around the 5th century BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine
that would make sense then, given that at the time the Palestinians (Peleset) weren't even in the area, as they likely came from Cyprus with the Sea people.
similarly, Jews weren't there either, as they come from Babilonia. so cnaan makes sense.
that being said, there's much Palestinian erasure it makes sense to be hyper vigilant