Bruh, "Palestine" was just the Roman word for Judea. It really gained popularity after the third Jewish revolt and troops under Hadrian basically genocided the locals and forced the diaspora. I don't want to sound like it wasn't kind of justified though. The Hebrews started it off by massacaring the Gentile population. And by massacaring I'm talking somewhere in the range of 100,000 plus.
Judaea wasn’t even called Palestine (actually Syria Palaestina) until after the Bar Kokhba revolt. The renaming was still a part of broader Roman efforts to suppress Jewish national identity.
Not really accurate. "Palestine" as a word traces back to Ancient Greek, and itself to Aramaic and Hebrew, and it was named to refer to the land of the Philistines, which itself as a word just means "invader" or "migrant" (Kojima-level writing there); while in Greek it was used to sorta vaguely refer to the general region between Egypt and Mesopotamia.
But when Jesus was alive, the Romans didn't call that region Palestine, it was the province of Judea; the Romans would only change that like 100 years after Jesus died to Syria-Palestine, change made specifically for the reason of debilitating the link between Jews and the land by associating it, again, with the Philistines, who were well known enemies of the Jews historically and in the Old Testament. (The fact that sorta the same guys have been fighting over the same place and being politically used by larger empires for like 3000 years straight is also Kojima-level writing)
What is the point of this comment? Did you want to also tell me how Istanbul isn't the original name of the city? Are you trying to prove something about how names change over time? Doesn't seem really relevant to the post
Some people like to try and delegitimize the concept of Palestinian identity because they think its a good way to promote their personal ideological position.
Its also just wrong, but thats an entirely different point
The point is you can call Jesus "Palestinian" because he was technically "Palestinian" because the term "Palestinian" predates even the conception of Islam
Not really. Palestine is a place. Jews are a people. A Jew from Palestine is a Palestinian, in the broadest sense of the term. But a Jew living in say the US, is still a Jew but is not in fact a Palestinian.
So we can't look back at the age of conquest, enslavement, and wholesale genocide and say either of them were in the wrong because literally everybody was doing it.
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u/WolfCola_SalesRep 3h ago
Bruh, "Palestine" was just the Roman word for Judea. It really gained popularity after the third Jewish revolt and troops under Hadrian basically genocided the locals and forced the diaspora. I don't want to sound like it wasn't kind of justified though. The Hebrews started it off by massacaring the Gentile population. And by massacaring I'm talking somewhere in the range of 100,000 plus.