Some social media users are sharing a meme that claims Arafat was the first person to ever reference the land of Palestine.
The claim that Arafat was the first to mention the ancient land of Palestine is “certainly not true,” Jodi Magness, an archaeologist specializing in ancient Palestine and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told USA TODAY.
For instance, a Roman emperor changed the name of a Roman province from Judea to Palestine in the second century A.D., she said.