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Friday, May 22, 2020

Here’s a map of Palestine from 1895

Anti-Israel activists love pointing to coins and stamps and maps from before 1948 showing the existence of Palestine.

A reader sent me this one, from a school atlas from 1895:

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Well, it does say “Palestine,” but there is nothing Arab about this map. It is all quite…Biblical.

 

(h/t DS)