The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) bans PA’s diplomatic mission from using a map showing all of Israel as 'Palestine.'
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
First Publish: 12/7/2011, 9:06 AM
Israel erased from map
Israel news photo from Palestine-net.com
The British Advertising StandardsAuthority (ASA) has banned the Palestinian Authority’s diplomatic mission from using a map showing all of Israel as “Palestine.
The “Discover Palestine" map showed Israel – from the Lebanese border to the Egyptian border – in the colors of the Palestinian Authority flag and included tourism links without referring to the State of Israel.
The ASA agreed with public complaints that the map in effectdeclared the country of Israel to be non-existent. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has told English-speaking audiences that he would recognize Israel based on the temporary 1949 Armistice Lines but not as a Jewish state. However, PA Arabic-language media and official statements depict the entire country as “Palestine.”
"We considered that the average consumer would infer from the map and the linked information that the total area represented by the map was the occupied Palestinian territories. Because this was not the case we concluded that the website was misleading,” the ASA ruled. Read the rest on: Arutz7
The “Discover Palestine" map showed Israel – from the Lebanese border to the Egyptian border – in the colors of the Palestinian Authority flag and included tourism links without referring to the State of Israel.
The ASA agreed with public complaints that the map in effectdeclared the country of Israel to be non-existent. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has told English-speaking audiences that he would recognize Israel based on the temporary 1949 Armistice Lines but not as a Jewish state. However, PA Arabic-language media and official statements depict the entire country as “Palestine.”
"We considered that the average consumer would infer from the map and the linked information that the total area represented by the map was the occupied Palestinian territories. Because this was not the case we concluded that the website was misleading,” the ASA ruled. Read the rest on: Arutz7
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