“PALESTINE?”
The term “Palestine” came from the name that the conquering Roman Empire gave the ancient Land of Yisrael in an attempt to obliterate and de-legitimize the Jewish presence in the Holy Land.
The name “Palestine” was invented in the year 135 C.E.
Before it was known as Judea, which was the southern kingdom of ancient Yisrael.
The Roman Procurator in charge of the Judean-Yisrael territories was so angry at the Jews for revolting that he called for his historians and asked them who were the worst enemies of the Jews in their past history.
The scribes said, “the Philistines.”
Thus, the Procurator declared that Land of Yisrael would from then forward be called “Philistia” [further bastardized into "Palaistina"] to dishonor the Jews and obliterate their history. Hence the name “Palestine.”
