Stealing history: PA turns art of ancient Judea into “Palestinian art”

Headline: “The basilica of Ashkelon – the largest in Palestine”

“In excavations held in the coastal city of Ashkelon (i.e., an Israeli city), a 2,000-year-old Roman basilica – the largest in Palestine – was discovered… 

Archaeologists attributed the base to the Herodian period, named after the Edomite Herod (i.e., Judean King Herod’s patrilineal line consisted of Edomite converts to Judaism) who built Ashkelon and used the best builders of Palestine (sic., there was no “Palestine”) at the time for this purpose…

Among others, dozens of column capitals with flower decorations were found, attesting to the precision, beauty, and progress of Palestinian art at the time. Some of them were decorated with reliefs of eagles, which are the symbol of the Roman empire…

These findings join that which was discovered in British excavations at the site during the 1980s (sic., 1920s), including a statue of the Greek goddess Nike raised on a ball lifted by the god Atlas, and a statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis – this proves what has become known to many regarding the connections between Palestine and the states of the region and the Mediterranean Sea basin.

Ashkelon was occupied in 1948 and its residents were uprooted. The occupiers attempted to Judaize it, but it is defying this with that which the earth is revealing, both in its depths and on its surface.”