Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following “concerns” by a UK-based Israeli advocacy group. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri... 85629
Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Is it just the Ancient Near/Middle East or in the Albukhary Foundation Gallery too? 010
MatildaPeace @matildapeace.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Are they going to rewrite the Bible and remove reference to Palestine? References: "Palestine" is used once in Joel 3:4, while "Palestina" appears in Isaiah 14:29 and 14:31. 000
Echinatum @echinatum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Have they revised the name of the Palestine Mandate yet? 020
Jos Jonker @josjonker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026heeft Engeland ook een CIDI zoals in Nederland? Droevig! 000
![I've just been chatting with Nick Cullinan, the excellent new director of the British Museum, and I'm very relieved to say that the story put by the Daily Telegraph about the BM cancelling the name Palestine is a complete misrepresentation of the facts:
"To reassure you we are not removing mention from Palestine from our labels," Nick told me. "Indeed, we have a display on at the moment about Palestine and Gaza.
"I know this is something our curators have thought long and hard about - as you can imagine. We amended two panels in our ancient Levant gallery last year during a regular gallery refresh, when some wording was amended to reflect historical terms.
"To be honest, the even more frustrating and concerning thing is that I knew nothing about this until yesterday and has only been explained to me this morning. I hadn’t even seen that [UK Lawyers for Israel] letter despite asking for it until this morning. I’m disgusted by the whole thing."
The question remains why the Daily Telegraph would put out such a mischief-making story without first fact checking it with the Directors office.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdrj5hsskrn4cll4bl42lr46/bafkreihupctfpn2iw6gyfnnrj5wss2bb4cwpqfqjo6v2cjgl2ixoeihqly)
