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daloy-politsey · 6 months ago

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I understand why people want to use Arabic names for places in Palestine. However, a lot of Hebrew names for those places predate Zionism and have been used continuously for thousands of years. Saying Jersusalem/Yerushalyim instead of Al Quds isn’t necessarily Zionist. There are some places that are exceptions to this. For example, Tel Aviv, Qiryat Shemona, and Eilat are truly modern Hebrew/Israeli inventions.

#Abby stein made a thread about this on Twitter #I would have posted screenshots of that thread instead #but I think she’s a bit dismissive of the role of colonialism when she calls this topic a distraction #the problem isn’t necessarily calling places by their Hebrew names #it’s erasing the Arabic names and saying that only the Hebrew/jewish names are legitimate

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