Ilan Pappe in Scheerpost: '..the museum appears to have bowed to pressure from UK Lawyers for Israel, one of Britain’s most aggressive lobby groups.
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Ilan Pappe in Scheerpost:
'..the museum appears to have bowed to pressure from UK Lawyers for Israel, one of Britain’s most aggressive lobby groups.
UKLFI works to suppress support for Palestinian rights and has escalated its campaign during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This has prompted legal complaints that the group uses “vexatious and legally baseless” tactics aimed at suppressing solidarity with Palestine.The group even attempted to get British-Palestinian surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah disbarred from medical practice due to his public advocacy for victims of the genocide. In January, a British medical tribunal dismissed the complaint as baseless. UKLFI’s pressure on the museum is part of a broader effort to erase Palestinians from history and deny Palestine as a nation.The museum will no doubt deny that fear of this aggressive lobby drove its decision.'
'Not every Israeli academic feels comfortable with Zionism’s propagandistic re-writing of history. But present-day Israel, led by a messianic, racist and genocidal political elite, is willing to persecute even liberal Israelis who challenge it – and its agents in the UK try to do the same to academics and institutions in Britain. Succumbing to the demand to replace Palestine with Canaan is not only a capitulation to the Israel lobby but an alignment with Israel’s current leadership, for whom Canaan is the biblical land stretching from the sea, across historic Palestine, Jordan, South Lebanon and southern Syria.'
'The only way to research Israel academically or culturally is as a state in a long continuum of political entities – one that, as in the case of the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, or that of Herod, occupied only very short periods in the rich history of ancient, medieval and modern Palestine. Whatever the future entity in Palestine will be – hopefully a genuine democracy for all – it will proudly recount in its textbooks and museums its history over thousands of years. Palestine existed then and it will continue to exist in the future.'
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