The Encyclopedia Britannica has a website for children — Britannica Kids — but it was recently discovered that that website contained entries on Israel and Palestine that filled their young readers with dreamy misinformation about place names, and who lived when, and where, in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. The UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLI) described what entries — on Israel, Palestine, and Judaism — needed changing, and the editors of the EB For Kids did the handsome thing, and accepted all of the changes suggested by the UKLI.
BREAKING: Britannica removed a map from its Britannica Kids edition that labeled Israel as “Palestine,” after backlash.
Israel exists. Erasing it from a map doesn’t change that fact. It has a people, a language, a currency, a culture, a capital, a history, and a religion.
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More on those entries, and what needed changing, can be found here: “Encyclopedia Britannica amends website after complaint about Israel erasure from maps, history,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2026:
Encyclopaedia Britannica has amended its Britannica Kids website following a complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) about its erasure of Israel in maps and teaching content.
In January 2026, UKLFI wrote to Encyclopaedia Britannica identifying multiple examples across Britannica Kids entries where the term “Palestine” was used to describe the region across thousands of years, including in modern contexts in which the State of Israel exists. UKLFI also raised concerns about maps and descriptions that appeared to erase Israel’s existence and misrepresent Jewish historical and indigenous connections to the land.
However, as of Sunday, Britannica has amended several children’s entries, including those on Palestine, Israel, and Judaism.
One of the amendments was to the Palestine (Kids) entry, which has been revised to remove present-tense descriptions defining Palestine as the whole territory “between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.”
This is how the matter of toponyms should be handled: the Land of Israel, that is the land of the Jews, that the Romans called “Palestine,” always included territory from the Mediterranean Sea to land on the western side of the Jordan River. The Jews have been living uninterruptedly in this land for 3,500 years, that is, for more than two millennia before the first Muslims showed up in the area.
Britannica also amended maps so they no longer present the whole territory of Israel and the Palestinian areas as a single, undifferentiated region labelled “Palestine.” UKLFI argued that this visually erased Israel’s existence….
The Britannica Kids maps should label the land from the river to the sea as “Israel,” as by rights it is. The League of Nations in 1922 assigned all of that territory to the Mandate for Palestine, intending that it would be included in the future Jewish state that would eventually emerge from Mandatory Palestine.
The revised entry explains both when and why the Romans renamed the Kingdom of Judea as “Palestine” in 135 A.D., just after the war with the Maccabees had been brought to a successful conclusion by Rome’s centurions. Rome wanted at this point to stamp out the use of the Jewish place name “Judea,” and to replace it with “Palestine.” Since then, Western maps of the area have displayed either the “Kingdom of Judea” in Biblical studies, or more often, “Palestine.”
A child looking at the Britannica Kids map, with all of the area between the river and the sea labelled “Palestine,” would naturally assume that that area had long belonged to the ancestors of today’s Palestinians, that the Israeli Jews were the usurpers who stole that land. That is why it was so important to get that misleading map, which labels that whole area as “Palestine,” pulled from the website.
Britannica Kids should now include several other maps. One should be a Biblical map that shows the twelve tribes of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River, to show the greatest extent of Jewish settlement. Another should delineate the territory that was assigned to the Palestine Mandate — from the river to the sea — that was always intended to become the future Jewish state.
The entry for “Israel” might include a discussion of the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine, its reason for being, the several Arab states that came into being as a result of the mandates system, and what happened just after Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948.
The vigilant members of the UK Lawyers For Israel should feel proud. Little by little, the misinformation put out about Israel and “Palestine” can and must be corrected, the errors removed, the maps revised, and the truth be told about the Jews in the land that far too many have been calling “Palestine.” Well done, thou good and faithful servants. Don’t let up.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
When I was a kid, I used to have an encyclopedia series called “Children’s Britannica”. They did have a fair description of Israel at the time. This was published around 1974, but despite that, there was no mention of the term “Palestinian” anywhere in their description of the Arab-Israeli dispute
gravenimage says
Similar with me, Infidel. I grew up *very* poor–on welfare–but we had a set of Encyclopedia Britannica from 1959, which was a huge boon during my school years. These were saner times…
Patrick says
Corporations who side with Hamas/Palestinian scam/terrorists, demonstrates how evil corporations can be and evil is just another word for being anti-American. Practicing deception in their literature is another indication of how far left, they are!
somehistory says
People may not believe the parts of the Bible where God is said to be speaking, giving The Law, where Abraham fought five kings and won, when Sodom and Gomorrah were visited by angels and then destroyed, Noah’s flood account, miracles performed by Prophets, David killing the giant with a stone, or any of the other accounts that reveal the awesomeness of God fighting for and blessing His people. There are so very many.
However, the historical parts where Israel is said to have twelves sons who settled the Land…..built cities, fought other nations….has all been proven by archeological digs, from pottery, signet rings, cisterns, etc, and detailed tablets written by Israel’s enemies. The physical Land described in the Bible still exists today. There is no reason to doubt that the Jews lived in the Land, and called it Israel, thousands of years ago.
The Land is Israel, not palestine.
England Invaded says
This is British Airways. It’s not just the ‘slims. Third world scum in general –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15522837/Nightmare-British-Airways-flight-passengers-turn-journey-church-service-singing-preaching-three-hours.html
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I had no idea that British Airways was still in business
England Invaded says
The part of the world it’s named after certainly isn’t.
Walter Sieruk says
The stealth jihadist infiltration and influence on the business of the company that publishes should be obvious to all who willing to see.
Be iit by brides of whatever means . The Encyclopedia Britannica is longer an objective source of information.
Cynthia says
Brittanica was an honored set in our household library. It was accurate and venerated; a source of truthful information.
This is a despicable erasing of history to fit a political narrative. No wonder we are at each others’ throats with such disinformation.
Divide and conquer has been perfectly by the leftist/Islamist coalition.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Somehow sadly, looks like older print editions are the only reliable versions of that encyclopedia. Otherwise, it has become woke trying to compete w/ that joke called Wikipedia
OLD GUY says
The purchase of our education system by foreigners is spreading propaganda and information to our children who will believe what they are taught.
Stacy says
When King David died, he was ruler of Israel. He passed it on to his two sons who divided it into Judea and Samara.
Emperor Hadrian ordered the lands renamed after the ancient enemies of the Israelites, the Filistines. Translated into Greek it became Palestine.
There never was a Palestine. That is the name given by the invading Roman conquerors.
the Jesuits, in 1697 with permission from the Ottomans, and with Ottoman oversight they took a census of the land, here is the actual figures, you can still access this publication today:
“Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata” – a detailed geographical survey of Palestine in 1696 written in Latin by Adriaan Reland published by Willem Broedelet, Utrecht, in 1714.
Residents of the REGION mainly concentrated in cities: Jerusalem, Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza.
In most cities, the majority of residents are Christians, Jews and others, very few Muslims who generally are Bedouin, who came to serve as Seasonal workers in agriculture or building.
Nablus: 120 Muslims, 70 Samaritans
Nazareth: 700 people – all Christians
Umm al-Fahm: 50 people-10 families, ALL Christian
Gaza: 550 people- 300 Jews,250 Christian(Jews engaged in agriculture Christians deal with the trading and transporting the products)
Tiberius: 300 residents, all Jews.
Safed: about 200 inhabitants, all Jews
Jerusalem: 5000 people, most of them (3,500) Jews, the rest- Christian (1000), Muslim (500)
Note* (no Muslims in Gaza)!
somehistory says
That is incorrect. King David’s son Solomon became king when David died. David did not ‘pass the kingship to his two sons,’ and his sons did not ‘divide the kingdom into Judea and Samaria.
The division of the kingdom came years later under very different circumstances. And, one part was Judah and the other was Israel.. Samaria came about when the Kingdom of Israel was overtaken by outsiders, so the people of Samaria were a mixture of Jews and foreigners.
Read the Books of Kings for a better understanding than what can be gotten from some internet search.