The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from its ancient Middle East displays following complaints about historical accuracy. Curators said the term was not “meaningful” as a geographic label for ancient regions and civilisations. Maps and information panels about ancient Egypt and the Phoenicians had previously labelled the eastern Mediterranean coast as Palestine, and…
Israel was a person’s name. The modern nation state is not.
Israel was an iron age kingdom. The person Israel is a personification used by the bible to describe the origins of said kingdom. Israel then became a name.