British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ to appease Israel lobby’s UKLFI
Yet another UK institution has caved in to the bullying of the Israel lobby. The British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from its displays after demands from the notorious “apartheid lobby” group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).
The British Museum caves to the Zionist lobby
Like its fellow lobby group CAA, UKLFI is under investigation for using vexatious lawsuits for political ends. The group was humiliated in January 2026 in its tenth attempt to get Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sitta struck off the medical register. The malicious case failed. But that wasn’t all.
The case judge derided UKLFI’s argument as biased, unreasonable and unevidenced – adding for good measure that it couldn’t even meet the lowest legal standard.
But despite this discrediting judgment, the British Museum folded rather than stand its ground against racist intimidation. UKLFI boasted that the museum is in the process of changing its displays to replace “Palestinian” with “Canaanite”. The group’s ludicrous argument was that using “Palestine” is “historically inaccurate” and:
erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity…
…For example, the information panels in the Levant gallery, covering the period 2000-300 BC, have all been updated to describe in some detail the history of Canaan and the Canaanites and the rise of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel using those names. A revised text devoted to the Phoenicians was installed in early 2025.
Supposedly, the British Museum changes are for “neutrality”. Zionists, who support the racist colony established in 1948 by violently expelling at least 700,000 Palestinians from their homes and ancestral lands, claim that Palestine never existed. Its adherents even claim that the indigenous people simply “abandoned” their homes in 1948.
The group is also being investigated by lawyers’ professional body the SRA for “vexatious and baseless” threats to silence support for Palestine.
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Hardly surprising as its content is appropriated from other civilisations under the context of the great western European rational enlightenment that gave us slavery, exploitation and empire SO the tone will obviously be beholding to the white supremacist’s privilege and susceptible to the fragile concerns of the recent white colonialist club. Like all new entrants to the club Israel (not Jews) has to up the ante to gain their membership the the Holocaust that has been the western European colonial enterprise. BTW the Gulf has been signed up to the White Tyranny club for years, whilst they keep the oil taps running.
Just as well it is all over bar the nuclear showdown blackmail that they attempt and pretend over the emerging nations and the BRICS that seeming are holding the resource cards and the age of Oil is coming to its end. The tragedy is that freedom for the masses won’t be coming from there either, just another tyranny of capital. Until we can see that money is the means and not the end. The greedy hungry ghosts of capitalism can never be satisfied.
The British Museum and the collectors are those ghosts, never satisfied until they had plundered the culture heritage and origins of the whole world. That is why there can be no tears for one of the temples of Whitey’s neurotic obsessions.
There has been a lot of traffic on social media about the British Museum allegedly submitting to pressure from UKLfI over removing Palestine labelling.
William Dalrymple contacted the museum’s director and reported this on twitter
William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill
“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 [it] 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.”
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This exchange makes clear that UKLfI have made a deliberately misleading claim which the Telegraph and other Zionist supporting media have amplified.
It is important that campaigns on this issue must be against the manoeuvring of UKLfI and not against @britishmuseum which has been trying to act responsibly in the interests of historical accuracy and resisting partisan political pressure.