Israel Wiped Off The Map. No, Really…
[guest post by Dana]
Giant publishing house HarperCollins put its anti-semitic underpants on full display when it chose to deliberately omit Israel from a map specifically designed to be used in schools in the Middle East. HarperCollins explained the purpose of the map:
It trumpets the work as providing students an “in-depth coverage of the region and its issues.” Its stated goals include helping kids understand the “relationship between the social and physical environment, the region’s challenges [and] its socio-economic development.”
Further:
Collins Bartholomew, a subsidiary of HarperCollins that specializes in maps, told the Tablet that it would have been “unacceptable” to include Israel in atlases intended for the Middle East. They had deleted Israel to satisfy “local preferences.”
Having been *caught in their anti-semitism, HarperCollins posted an apology:
HarperCollins regrets the omission of the name Israel from their Collins Middle East Atlas. This product has now been removed from sale in all territories and all remaining stock will be pulped. HarperCollins sincerely apologises for this omission and for any offence caused.
*Caught, of course, being the operative word here…
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (8e74ce) — 1/2/2015 @ 8:59 amThe Arabs are determined to ignore reality until it bites them on the ass.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:24 amHow about a map of Washington D.C. that leaves out the current occupant of the Oval Office?
I’d buy that in a New York minute.
Skeptical Voter (12e67d) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:26 amkind of surprised instead of pulping they didn’t save them for oven fuel
happyfeet (831175) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:33 amIt’s caught in their cowardice, not their anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is evil, spinelessness is not. The difference is important.
JWB (c1c08f) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:33 amI read about this a couple of days ago. At that time HarperCollins was defending this.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189335
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:41 amBut in the same publication, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales condemned this with Bishop Declan Lang of the Conference’s Department of International Affairs quoted as saying “the publication of this atlas will confirm Israel’s belief that there exists a hostility towards their country from parts of the Arab world.”
“It will not help to build up a spirit of trust leading to peaceful co-existence.”
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:43 amWas anybody fired? Betcha not.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:51 am“the publication of this atlas will confirm Israel’s belief that there exists a hostility towards their country from parts of the Arab world.”
The secret is out!
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:52 amHas anybody been to Israel lately? Do immigration and customs still stamp your proof of entry on a separate piece of paper instead of your passport so you won’t be hassled in case you go to any Arab countries?
nk (dbc370) — 1/2/2015 @ 9:57 amnk @10: Do immigration and customs still stamp your proof of entry on a separate piece of paper instead of your passport so you won’t be hassled in case you go to any Arab countries?
(Note: this web page is from 2009)
http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/09/can-i-visit-arab-countries-with-an-israeli-visa-stamp-in-my-passport/
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/2/2015 @ 10:28 amArab/Muslim countries that accept visitors with Israeli stamped passports:
•United Arab Emirates
•Egypt
•Jordan
•Oman
•Morocco
Arab/Muslim countries that DO NOT accept visitors with Israeli stamped passports:
•Syria
•Lebanon
•Libya
•Kuwait
•Iran
•Iraq
•Pakistan
•Saudi Arabia
•Sudan
•Yemen
Arab/Muslim countries that ALLOW entry for Israeli citizens:
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/2/2015 @ 10:29 am•Bahrain
•Egypt
•Tunisia
•Jordan
•Qatar
•Oman
•Morocco
•Mauritania
The other way:
http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/can-i-visit-israel-after-visiting-arab-countries/
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/2/2015 @ 10:31 amThe Belligerent
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/2/2015 @ 10:51 amwho never choose Compromise
deserve no respect
Nuclear power plants. $3,000 Teslas. Then they can drink their oil.
nk (dbc370) — 1/2/2015 @ 11:01 amThe progrom’s directed against Christians and Jews in much of the Middle East will bear some bitter fruit in years to come. Isreal is currently enjoying a small number of Christian volunteers in its armed forces and this will increase as time progresses. Meantime, the Arab portion of the Middle East will be denuded of important contributors to their economies. Obola’s unconstrained hopes for change for the region will yield nothing but unintended consequences. The Kurds are aligned with Isreal, and perhaps they will be given the time and means needed to defend themselves. Lebanon was once a place of great hope, and perhaps these developments will encourage them to make the needed alliances that would allow them to throw out the thugs. Cheap oil will kill the Arab goose, and this is to be welcomed, provided it has been done in time to thwart the Iranian Bomb.
We live in interesting times.
bobathome (348c8a) — 1/2/2015 @ 11:08 amIslam is stealth Satanism.
DNF (1eebbb) — 1/2/2015 @ 11:37 amCloser to home, the LA News Group misidentifies the Rose Bowl as the LA Coliseum.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/2/2015 @ 12:00 pmJWB is right. It is pandering. Same as those in the West who refuse to call out Palestinian attempts to white out Jewish connections to the Holy Land and Biblical history.
kishnevi (a5d1b9) — 1/2/2015 @ 12:26 pmOf course, reading through the list provided by Sammy, I have to wonder why anyone would want to visit any of them unless business reasons demanded it. Turkey, Morocco, Egypt for touristic sight seeing, perhaps.
#1: i am quite surprised that they pulled that atlases, i really thought they were going to stick to the local preferences angle. Maybe someone at the top realized that there are many places where local preferences would result in sill atlases, like China.
#2: Israel customs no longer stamps your passport. Instead they create a tiny slip of paper which also serves as your traveling visa. The paper does not attach to your passsport , it is up to you on how to keep it on your person. The paper has your photo, passport number and last day that it is valid.
seeRpea (303c15) — 1/2/2015 @ 3:59 pmArab/Muslim countries that DO NOT accept visitors with Israeli stamped passports
Should also be a list of countries whose
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/2/2015 @ 4:15 pmcitizensdenizens are not allowed into the US or any other country without an official antisemitism policy (assuming that is still official US policy).In my Atlas, Glasgow, Scotland (the home of Harper Collins’ map subsidiary), has been scrubbed.
askeptic (efcf22) — 1/2/2015 @ 5:05 pmSocietal manipulation about geography and history goes on all the time. Rarely is it this blatant and this obvious. The phrase “local preferences” to describe what Harper Collins did is a real knee slapper, though, you’ve got to admit.
elissa (e00c57) — 1/2/2015 @ 5:19 pmElissa, it is not just maps. They try to rewrite the Bible and even the Quran. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16233#.VKdJzygo5SA
kishnevi (294553) — 1/2/2015 @ 5:48 pmO/T, but always relevent…..
askeptic (efcf22) — 1/2/2015 @ 6:05 pmPresident Putz doubles down on NorKor sanctions for attacking Sony.
This, more than anything else, tells me that the Federal Bureau of Idiots is wrong on tracing the attack to NorKor, and that it is an insider job, and Putz doesn’t want to embarrass his Hollyweird friends.
nothing to see here:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/obama-releases-military-adviser-to-osama-bin-laden-who-vowed-to-kill-bush/
narciso (ee1f88) — 1/2/2015 @ 6:14 pmso much about sanctions having no impact:
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-cuba-embargo-has-actually-worked-like-a-charm-2/
narciso (ee1f88) — 1/2/2015 @ 6:22 pmHuckabee done at Fox while gearing up for a possible candidacy.
DNF (6498ab) — 1/4/2015 @ 5:11 amthings that make you go hmm:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/01/analysis_osama_bin_l.php
narciso (ee1f88) — 1/4/2015 @ 6:23 amThe Caliphate might be the best thing that could happen to this ridiculous parody of what used to be America. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sex-reassignment-surgery-74-medicare-win-opens-door-transgender-seniors-n276986
nk (dbc370) — 1/4/2015 @ 6:43 amIn my Atlas, Glasgow, Scotland (the home of Harper Collins’ map subsidiary), has been scrubbed.
askeptic (efcf22) — 1/2/2015 @ 5:05 pm
Resolution for 2015: I shall no longer brake for men in kilts.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/4/2015 @ 7:23 amPresident Putz doubles down on NorKor sanctions for attacking Sony.
Yea, what the heck is that all about?! It shows how philosophically screwed up Barry is. So he’s a nitwit dove when he should be a hawk, and a nitwit hawk when he should be, if not a dove, at least a hands-off leader.
There is a saying that liberalism is a mental illness, and Obama illustrates that on a daily basis.
Mark (c160ec) — 1/4/2015 @ 8:26 amEven if they are playing a tune on the pipes, Col?
mg (31009b) — 1/4/2015 @ 9:16 ameven then, mg.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/4/2015 @ 9:33 amaskeptic (efcf22) — 1/2/2015 @ 6:05 pm
No, no, they’re wrong yes, because it required the help of, if not the instigation of, China. Somebody is very anxious to blame this on North Korea alone. And probably also trying to say no connection to North Korea at all, but taht doesn’t fly.
Sammy Finkelman (6ee5be) — 1/4/2015 @ 11:14 amsomewhat related:
http://www.meforum.org/4951/egypt-sisi-islamic-thinking-is-antagonizing
(Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on New Year’s Day, 2015, in connection with Mohamed’s upcoming birthday, said, in part:
Nothing will work until they also condemn lies and hatred about Jews and Israel.
Read more: http://www.cross-currents.com/#ixzz3Nt8Re2p2
Sammy Finkelman (6ee5be) — 1/4/2015 @ 12:56 pmUnder Creative Commons License: Attribution
kishnevi (a5d1b9) — 1/2/2015 @ 12:26 pm
urkey is not on any of the lists, probably because it is not an Arab country. Pretty much anyone can go there, including people from places like Pakistan and Iran, but it may be dangerous for some people to be there. Some people who defected from ISIS or other Islamic groups have to be careful.
Egypt and Morrocco are listed both as places where Israeli stamps in a passport cause no trouble, and Israelis can visit. The web site I linked pointed out that for people who are trying to go to places that won’t let in, or are much less likely to let in people who have visited Israel, they have to be careful not to have stamps in their passports that show them entering Egypt or Jordan at a border crossing with Israel
Sammy Finkelman (6ee5be) — 1/5/2015 @ 9:26 amThere’s a full page ad on page A5 of the New York Times today, giving excerpts from a speech at the U.N. by Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Proser, on November 24, 2014, paid fro by Honest Reporting (they credit the couple who paid for it)
It isn’t so great.
First, by pointing out other things ignored, it would seem to credit, some of the accusations against Israel.
Second, he said Jewish refugees fled at the same time as Palestinians did. Actually, it was over succeeding years. The citizenship issue (the Palestinian refugees were not granted citizenship in many Arab countries and had their rights resticted and that’s why that issue existed many years later) should be emphasized a bit more.
He neglected to mention that the Temple Mount is, in reality, a Jewish site – it’s just that the ways of peace have surrendered it. There’s not enough credit given for this. This is a profound thing. (That’s why in fact, Israel and Jews are constantly being accused of wanting to change it.)
And it does not compare to the Vatican and the western Wall – the proper Islamic comparison is Mecca – which wouldn’t make Moslems look too good, but there it is.
Of course he wants to focus on the Jerusalem, but still the minor bits of rhetoric shouldn’t be misleading.
It’s also not true that Jews continuously lived in Israel. I think there were almost none at the time of the first destruction of Jerusalem after the murder of Gedaliah. Also, the population was considerably reduced at the time of the First Crusade and the ensuing decades till Saladin.
I don’t think it is just indoctrination that causes terrorist attacks, but some actual organization, personal ties, and the knowledge of monetary rewards. I think public that
statements are important, though, anyway, but what is needed to bring peace is far more than what Israel is asking for, which seems to be acessation of new incitement – there needs to be outright apologies and admission of guilt and pleas for forgiveness, and, of course condemnation of anyone who lends any support to it, or honors the perpetrators. And this has to come from non-Palestinians like the King of Saudi Arabia and the Parliaments of the Arab countries. If you are serious.
He says that as a Jew and an Israeli he knows (this is something that Netayahu has said) that “when our enemies say they want to attack us, they mean it.”
It needs to be added, that when they say they don’t want to attack, they don’t mean it.
Peaceful intentions are revealed only through a long series of actions and inactions. Israel doesn’t need such declaration from Italy, or Australia, for instance, and if it it got one, that would raise a red flag. There is a Saudi peace plan. It means nothing. It is worse than nothing.
Otherwise the speech had its good points.
Sammy Finkelman (6ee5be) — 1/5/2015 @ 9:33 am