#this isn't simplification for the masses this is actively re-writing history

[gay-jewish-bucky]

am i having a stroke or did encyclopedia brittanica shift how it talks about ancient eretz yisrael and early judaism? it feels like major historical revisionism. not only is it revisionist to call a name it wouldn't go by for centuries, but it's more egregiously revisionist to further use the modern name instead of judea and samaria, the united kingdoms of ancient israel.

it know, it's probably an anti-intellectual cop-out to make it "more accessible to the uninformed", but it feels like it's another example of the wider trend we are seeing (in the wake of the conflict flaring up) to rewrite the history of the levant because people falsely believe reality would somehow negate the indigeneity of levantine arab groups who faced forced assimilation and conversion at the hands of multiple empires.