How the British Museum has been quietly erasing Jewish history 

The British Museum’s cancellation (and subsequent postponement) of Paul Collins’ talk on the history of ancient Israel has recently made headlines.

Less reported is the fact that something much darker has been going on within the walls of the British Museum.

“The British Museum just postponed a Jewish Culture Month lecture, but it’s been erasing Jewish history long before that“, writes federal judge Roy K. Altman in A Jewish History Heist at the British Museum, published in the Free Press – essential reading.

 In his article, Altman draws attention to a sign at the entrance to a room filled with ancient Israelite artefacts. The sign reads: 

By the beginning of the first millennium BC the Israelites occupied most of Palestine except for the southern coastal strip, which continued to be held by the Philistines….”

This is a historical impossibility, Altman argues. The Israelites could not have “occupied most of Palestine.” The name “Palestine” didn’t exist for that region until roughly 1,000 years later. The Romans coined it after the........

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