"Palestine" is one of the world's oldest antisemitic words
Shai ben-Tekoa tells about the history and origins of "palestine" as a word for delegitimizing Israel:
On June 11, during an Irish Ryanair flight, Bologna-Tel-Aviv, a stewardess repeatedly referred over the PA system to their destination as “Palestine.”Read more at the article. The atrocity the Roman empire under Hadrian led to has caused untold damage for centuries on end, and it's bound to continue for much more.
Of course, some Israelis on board did not like that and confronted her. Harsh words were exchanged, and Ryanair’s official, disgustingly dishonest apology—”It was an innocent mistake”—was characteristic of a people with the most antisemitic national assembly in the West.
The first gentile ever to call this land “Palestine” was the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who invented the idea. There had never been such a country with that name until then. For two centuries, Rome’s imperialists governed Eretz Yisrael as a colony and called it Judea. The Jews twice rose in violent rebellion; they had been the most obstreperous of the empire’s conquered peoples.
Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, Israel, Moonbattery, political corruption
