The “powerful Israeli group” made a complaint according to the article, they didn’t “force” anything. And apparently it was a valid complaint.
It doesn’t seem ethical for a museum to reject valid complaints from certain people because you don’t like the government of the country they’re from.
The name “Palestine” for the region has been in use for over 1000 years.
But from this article this is relating to:
Information boards in the museum’s ancient Middle East galleries, covering the period from 1500BC to 1700BC.
The change doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. It wouldn’t make sense to refer to Ancient Rome as “Italy” or Ancient Persia as “Iran” either.
I pointed out that many of the banned comments were grossly offensive like “kill yourself” and someone went into my comment history to prove that I’m a “zionazi”. It was a comment where I asked someone for an example of how the state of israel treats its Arab population as second class citizens.
The irony of these people is that they seem ideologically very similar to fascists like Ben Gvir and Smotrich. The only difference is which ethnicity they target for their hatred and ethnic cleansing goals.
Oh hey it’s me 😄
They banned me shortly after that but I wasn’t told why. I like the idea of Lemmy but there’s a lot of nutty people in here and it puts me off.
Its basically impossible to make VPNs illegal. They’re trivial to set up and many of the worlds businesses depend on them for their IT infrastructure.