“For decades, Zionist propagandists have tried to convince us all that throughout history Arabs never called the place Palestine (spoiler alert: they did)” Opinion | _ZachFoster
have regurgitated the talking points that “there was no Palestine” and “there were no Palestinians”. And if they never call the place Palestine, and they never thought of themselves as Palestinians, so the nationalist logic goes, then what claims do they have to an independent Palestinian state in the first place?
But, nearly three decades later, we have a much richer understanding of who called the place Palestine, when, where and why. There was one place, though, where people seem to have remembered Palestine, and used that word in their day-to-day speech. That place was Ramla, located about half way between what is today Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Jerusalem.
But a closer look at Arabic sources over the past half millennium reveals that people in Ramla continued to call the place Palestine. The 15th-century scholar Abu al-‘Awn al-Faruqi , for instance, is identified on his tombstone in the city of Ramla as a scholar from the “Palestinian frontiers”.
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