Ah, so this woman thinks she's a historian, does she.
If she were an ACTUAL historian and not a fucking FRAUD, she would know that she's writing "Palestine" wrong.
Palestine is a GREEK COLONIZER TERM. And the correct way to write it is Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē).
Συρία ἡ Παλαιστίνη (Syría hē Palaistínē), Romanized as Syria-Palaestina, was a name coined by the Greek historian Herodotus in his "Histories", which he wrote in Athens in the 430s BCE. He coined this name because the Athenians were in a cold war with the Achaemenid Empire (aka the Persian Empire), and Herodotus wanted to diminish the influence that Persia had in the Levant in order to appeal to the Athenian audience who was paying for his work.
So, like many Greeks of his day, Herodotus referred to the entire Levantine region comprising modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel as Συρία (Syria), aka Assyria, because the Assyrians had been defeated by the Babylonians 180 years before he was writing, and the Assyrians were therefore considered a historical people. They were not an existential threat to the Athenians like the Persians were.
And then in his survey of Eretz Yisrael, Herodotus discounted most of Yehudah (Judea), and he focused on the strip of land along the Judean coast, which he referred to as Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē), which is what we would call Philistia -- aka Philistine-land.
Why did Herodotus only focus on Palaistine (Philistia), and essentially ignore the rest of Judea? Because he recognized that the area of Philistia had once been inhabited by the Mycenaean Philistines from Crete, and they were Homeric cousins to him. So he erased Yehudah and called the entire land Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē) because he was trying to assert a Greek presence in the land.
This is typical of the Athenians. They also referred to the Achaemenid Empire as "Persia" to give even their Persian sworn enemies a Greek origin. Herodotus writes in his "Histories" that the Persian people were descended from the Greek god Perseus through his son Perses.
So, "Palaistínē" was where the Mycenaean Greek Philistines had once lived, before being slaughtered by the Babylonians in 600 BCE. Herodotus recognized the area of Philistia as once being inhabited by his Homeric cousins, and he used this as Greek propaganda against the Persian Empire.
Herodotus intentionally mis-labeled the region as Syria (to erase the Persian Empire) and Palaistínē (to bolster the Greek claim to the land). And he intentionally erased the endonym Yehudah (Judea), which is what the native Jewish inhabitants called the land.
And all this was done because of late 5th Century BCE Athenian geopolitics, 50 years after the Greco-Persian wars.
Anyone who uses the term "Palestine" (Παλαιστίνη) to refer to Judea is just repeating this Ancient Greek propaganda.
And then 565 years later, in 135 CE, Emperor Hadrian of Rome slaughtered his way to victory over the Jews in the Bar Kokhba Revolt. He needed a way to erase the Jewish claim to the land of Yehudah (Romanized as Judaea). And so Hadrian officially changed the name of Judaea to Syria-Palaestina within Rome, using the Greek exonym for the land that was recorded in Herodotus' "Histories". Hadrian was trying to literally wipe Judaea and Israel off the map.
And the name that Hadrian chose was deliberate. He renamed Judaea after the Assyrians and the Philistines, two of the Jewish people's greatest enemies, and he used the name coined by a Greek, another enemy of the Jewish people. Three enemies in one name. The Romans were nothing if not petty and cruel.
And now, nearly 2000 years later, we have Arabs like the woman in the video who are clinging to this exonym "Palestine" that a Greek historian and a Roman Emperor stamped onto the land of Judea in Eretz Yisrael.
Instead of at least creating an Arabic name for the land, Arabs are clinging for dear life to a name concocted by literal European colonizers who came up with this name because of Greek and Roman geopolitics of their day.
Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē) is not Arabic. It cannot even be pronounced correctly in Arabic. It is Romanized Greek.
This woman in the video is spreading the historical equivalent of Flat Earther conspiracies.
She is depending on a lot of really stupid people believing her -- because she knows that there are a lot of really stupid people out there who unfortunately will swallow the bullshit she's peddling. She is performing a kind of sleight of hand, and as the old saying goes, there's a sucker born every minute.
But then there are many of us who know the truth. And we know that people like this woman are full of shit.
And what I know is that truth and sunlight are the best disinfectant for the kind of lies that she is spreading.
And eventually, there will be enough people who will cut through this bullshit.
And then where will this woman and all the millions of people like her be?
Maybe they should go ask the Scientologists that question.
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