not using palestine or palestinian for talmud and rabbis to avoid confusion note many articles about the rabbis of the talmud and mishnah are derived from the archaic jewish encyclopedia published between over one hundred years ago when the middle east was still under the thumb of the ottoman turks and which used the archaic expressions palestine when referring to the land of israel and to the jews living in the areas of the historical land of israel as palestinians this is a big mistake that requires constant attention and correction especially when copying and editing articles from the jewish encyclopedia or from similarly archaic sources such as easton's bible dictionary at this time no one uses the term s palestinian s in relation to anything associated with jews or the land they lived in and which they regarded as their homeland nor by any type of conventional jewish scholarship particularly at the present time when the label palestinian is almost entirely identified with the palestinian arabs who are mostly muslims finally kindly take note that the name palestinian talmud is also not used and it redirects to the conventional term jerusalem talmud used in jewish scholarship thank you