Heraclius you are wrong that only Israeli settlers and their supporters call it Shechem The usage is wider and older than that I have not been able to find out exactly when this usage started but I have examples from the middle of the 19th century so it is definitely older than Zionism Both Jewish writers and Christian Bible types have a natural preference for Biblical names over modern 2000 years old counts as modern names so this is hardly surprising In the modern era the intentional suppression of the name Nablus is common but nobody is proposing that here I have an Israeli road map in English from the Eldan car rental company that says Shchem without even giving Nablus as an alternative This is the Israeli way of saying it s ours However this map does show the Green Line which many Israeli maps do not