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Where's the evidence for European anti-Palestinianism?

Under Roman rule Judea was renamed "Palaestina"

Under Byzantine rule it was named "Palaestina"

Under Arab and Ottoman rule the name was not used.

Under British rule it was named "Palestine".

When the Jordanians ruled the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the Egyptians ruled Gaza they didn't call these areas "Palestine".

It's an inversion of the truth. Europeans have always favoured "Palestine". They still do.

It's their favoured alternative to "Israel" or "Judea".

I'd be interested to see any evidence of this claimed "anti Palestinianism" from Europe.

They had issues with the climate, the social conditions etc. no doubt. But "erasure" is the opposite of the general European attitude.

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