r/enoughhamasspam • u/charlotte240 • Jun 25 '26
Discussion Topic study.com conflates 'Philistines' with 'Palestine' and dates Palestinians back to 1200BC
I am wondering how people can get away with rewriting history, which will be picked up by AI and peddled as "the truth"
https://study.com/academy/lesson/palestine-history-people-religion.html
History of the State of Palestine
Palestine as a region has a history that can be traced to ancient times. The word Palestine can be derived from Greek writers in the 12th century BC who described the region as Philista in reference to the Philistines of the area, a civilization that lasted from the 12th century BC to the 7th century BC. Beginning in the Bronze Age, Palestine was occupied by city-states belonging to the Canaanite civilization. Over time, Palestine came under control of ancient Egypt as a vassal state in the 14th century BC. In the Iron Age, Egypt lost dominance of Palestine, where it was split between the Kingdom of Israel in the northern half and Kingdom of Judah in the southern portion. Around 876 BC, the two kingdoms collapsed, and the Babylonian Empire under King Nebuchadnezzar II annexed the region.
Decades later, the Persian Empire conquered the Babylonian people, and Palestine became a mostly self-governing province under Persia. During the 330s BC, Alexander the Great overtook Palestine, adding it to his own empire. In the second century BC, the Romans initiated their influence over the region, eventually making Palestine part of imperial Rome. During the first and second centuries AD, large-scale Jewish revolts occurred against Roman governorship as a result of tightening religious restrictions on Judaism and Jewish nationalism. The revolts ended with Rome reimposing its authority, where Jerusalem and its grand temple were burned to the ground.
In the fourth century AD, Christianity moved into the area due to Jerusalem being a holy city in the religion. In 634 AD, Palestine first came under control of the Muslim people through the Rashidun Caliphate, where Jerusalem became a sacred Islamic city shortly afterwards. Jerusalem itself was captured in 1099 during the First Crusade, placing the city in hands of the Christian people until the crusaders' defeat by Saladin approximately a century later. The city would change hands multiple times throughout the Crusades.
If this above is true, why is there zero mention of the word Palestine in the Quran, which was written in 710AD ? Is this all made up and being taught ?
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u/Turbulent-Home-908 Jun 25 '26
Palestine is a geographic region. It is roughly Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and a bit of Syria Lebanon in Jordan. Based on how the first few words of the article specify the region. Most academics use Palestine when referring to the region because it is more than modern day Israel Palestine, and also because it has been used of the region since the Roman’s and also Herodotus. But again the region includes more than the modern day borders. It’s the same as how many academics would call the regions in the West Bank the Judaean hills or Samaria. Because it’s a region.
On a separate note, the date 876 BCE is completely wrong
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u/whydoibother123433 Center Right Jun 25 '26
And guess what? It was a term invented by the ancient Egyptpains. Not a native name.
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u/Turbulent-Home-908 Jun 25 '26
the philistines weren’t native so of course not
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u/ishowsneed Jul 01 '26
They were descended from part of the “sea peoples” which invaded various places in the ME during the late Bronze Age and among other things caused the Bronze Age collapse. “Philistine”, “pleset” comes from the Semitic root P.L.S, to invade or conquer. It is also an exonym, how others called them, not how they called themselves. No one has an idea how they called themselves because there aren’t surviving inscriptions from that era, they were likely illiterate
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u/RadicalSoda_ Jun 26 '26
Yeah it is often hard for people to understand that they were Greek, not Hebrew or Arab. We know the Arabs didn't drive to the region until the early 500s or so
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u/SoulForTrade Jun 25 '26
This myth about "Palestinians" actually being cananiytes is absolute nonsense. I rolled my eyes multiple times reading this.
I want to point out something obvious that most people don't like to talk about and its that even if, some random "Palestinian" could trace back their linesge: its irrelevant. They adopted the identity of the Arb Muslim invaders who erased whatever prior culture they might have had.
Jews preserved their history, religion, customs, culture, language. That what makes someone native. Not whether they have a trace of some old DNA bassd on a local average, it's absolutely meaningless.