Romans hated the Jews so much—to the extent that scholars generally recognize this as fact—that after the Jews (unsuccessfully) revolted and prompted the third and final Jewish–Roman war between 132 and 136 CE, the Romans wanted to punish them beyond laying waste to Judea (which they also did). So they changed the administrative name of Judea to “Palaestina” in order to sever the Jews in name from their historical homeland—possibly history’s first case of Jewish gaslighting!
