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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

British agency rules against Israel's attempt to wipe Palestine off the map

Saed Bannoura, IMEMC
After over 1,000 people with Jews for Justice and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK sent complaints, the British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled against allowing the Israeli Tourism Ministry to distribute maps in the UK that showed no West Bank, Gaza or Golan Heights, but instead put 'Israel' in each of these occupied territories.

In a decision reached on Wednesday July 15th, the ASA ruled that the maps portraying the Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza and the Syrian territory of the Golan Heights as being part of Israel violated a regulation requiring truth in advertising.

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