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U.K. Lawyers for Israel told the museum that some maps and descriptions of exhibits 'retroactively apply the term "Palestine" to periods in which no such entity existed and risk obscuring the history of Israel and the Jewish people'
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The British Museum, the United Kingdom's most-visited attraction, has removed the word "Palestine" from some displays, after a pro-Israel group said it was used in a historically inaccurate way to describe areas in ancient Levant and Egypt.
