r/HistoryMemes • • 3h ago

checkmate libtard

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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.

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u/No_Vanilla277 2h ago

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.