{"id":77364,"date":"2016-08-08T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=77364"},"modified":"2016-08-15T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:38:10","slug":"google-slammed-for-removing-palestine-from-its-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/08\/google-slammed-for-removing-palestine-from-its-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Slammed for Removing Palestine from Its Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-2-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-2-logo-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"google-2 logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-2-logo-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-2-logo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-2-logo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-2-logo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>4 Aug 2016 &#8211; <\/em>The Palestinian Journalists\u2019 Forum has denounced Google for deleting the name of Palestine from its maps and replacing it with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released yesterday, the forum said Google\u2019s decision to remove Palestine from its maps on 25 July \u201cis part of the Israeli scheme to establish its name as a legitimate state for generations to come and abolish Palestine once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe move is also designed to falsify history, geography as well as the Palestinian people\u2019s right to their homeland, and a failed attempt to tamper with the memory of Palestinians and Arabs as well as the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The forum said the move was \u201ccontrary to all international norms and conventions\u201d, stressing that Google should back track on its actions.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>This work by <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\" >Middle East Monitor<\/a> <em>is licensed under a <\/em><em>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/em><em>. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" >What does that mean?<\/a> For permissions beyond the scope of this license, please <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/contact\" >contact us<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20160804-google-slammed-for-removing-palestine-from-its-maps\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 middleeastmonitor.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Aug 2016 &#8211; The Palestinian Journalists\u2019 Forum has denounced Google for deleting the name of Palestine from its maps and replacing it with Israel. In a statement released yesterday, the forum said Google\u2019s decision to remove Palestine from its maps on 25 July \u201cis part of the Israeli scheme to establish its name as a legitimate state for generations to come and abolish Palestine once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,216,66,54,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-middle-east-north-africa","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}