Remember: Jews are called Jews because they come from JUDEA.

In 1950, the government of Jordan, having seized that part of “Palestine” that had been known in the Western world for 3,000 years as “Judea” and “Samaria,” wanted to efface, as best it could, the Jewish connection to that land.

It decided that those areas would from now on be known as “the West Bank.” In doing this, Jordan was emulating the Romans who, when they conquered the Jewish “Kingdom of Judea,” decided to rename it “Syria Palestina” — “Palestinian Syria” – which then became shortened to “Palestine.”

The Romans also renamed Jerusalem “Aelia Capitolina,” but that toponym, fortunately, never caught on, and for the non-Muslim world, Jerusalem remained Jerusalem.