Nadat
Facebook al een paar jaar lang Palestijnen weert van haar platform,
kwam Middle East Monitor (MEMO) met het bericht dat Google Maps
Palestijnse gebieden als de Gazastrook en de West Bank niet meer als
dusdanig weergeeft op haar 'i-landkaarten.......'
Blijkbaar
wil Google aantonen dat ook haar bedrijf de zionisten bedient tot het
einde, ook al zijn er bergen bewijs over de ongebreidelde agressie,
beter gezegd 'terreur' tegen Palestijnen door de illegaal gestichte
staat Israël......
Kortom
ook Google ziet Palestijnen niet als mensen, precies zoals Israël en
de westerse landen dat niet zien......... Alsof de Palestijnen
verantwoordelijk zijn voor de holocaust en de illegale stichting van
de staat Israël op het gebied van Palestina......*
De
hoogste tijd wellicht om Google voorgoed vaarwel te zeggen, echter
dat zal voor velen niet meevallen, neem alleen al dit blog.........
Niet iedereen heeft de middelen om een site in de lucht te
houden, ofwel Google misbruikt haar macht......
How Google Wipes Palestine Off the Map
Google's
dedication to Israel's occupation can be seen in its maps and its
refusal to recognise the reality of Israel’s apartheid system for
Palestinians
October
30, 2018 at 9:03 am | Published in: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle
East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos
& Photo Stories
October
30,
2018 at 9:15 am
Written
by Middle
East Monitor
(MEMO Op-ed) — Like
the other
Silicon Valley monopolies,
Google habitually takes the side of Israeli occupation and war crimes
in Palestine – the very term Palestine is not used by their highly
influential maps app.
A new
report by a Palestinian human rights group last
month exposed the depths of Google’s dedication to the Israeli
occupation.
With
a known history documented back more than 3,200 years, the name
“Palestine” is the only term continuously used for the entire
territory of the country lying between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea.
Palestine
is the most historically accurate term. But since
1948,
when Zionist militias expelled the majority of the Palestinian
population from the country by force, a new state, “Israel”, was
established.
That
state has never declared its borders.
Consequentially,
when speaking about “Israel” it is unclear exactly what territory
is being referred to. But Zionists of both the right and the “left”
commonly claim the entire historic territory of Palestine as the
“Land of Israel.”
The
new report,
by 7amleh (Hamleh), a Palestinian organisation advocating online
rights, details how Google seems to almost go out of its way to
eradicate the reality of Palestinian life.
In
2016, Google
came under fire from Palestinians on social media when
the terms “West Bank” and “Gaza” disappeared from Google
Maps. Google said that the removal of these terms was down to a
glitch and that they had never used the word Palestine in the first
place.
(The
West Bank and Gaza Strip are regions of Palestine that are important,
since they represent
the
remaining Palestinian territories which Israel failed to occupy in
1948. In
1967,
however, Israel took over those too.)
“Through
its mapping and labelling,” the 7amleh report explains, “one can
deduce that Google Maps recognises the existence of Israel, with
Jerusalem as its capital, but not Palestine.”
There
are further aspects of the way Google has wiped Palestinian life off
the map though. As the 7amleh report maps in some detail, Palestinian
villages in the Naqab (Negev desert) deemed “unrecognised” by
Israel (inside of what is sometimes termed “Israel proper” –
the territories of Palestine occupied in 1948) are not properly
mapped by Google.
These
villages are only visible in Google Maps “when zooming in very
closely,” the report explains, “but otherwise appear to be
non-existent. This means that when looking at Google Maps, these
villages appear to be not there.”
The
report details how small Israeli villages are “displayed even when
zoomed-out, while unrecognised Palestinian Bedouin villages,
regardless of their size are only visible when zooming in very
closely.”
This
is despite the fact that there “are in total 46 Bedouin villages in
the Naqab, the majority of which existed before Israel’s creation
in 1948. Some claim to have existed since the 7th century.”
Israel
has repeatedly attempted to physically remove these villages, but has
repeatedly failed, thanks to the resistance of the Palestinians who
live there, and thanks also to national and
international solidarity shown to those villages.
Their
Israeli (lack of) status as “unrecognised” also means that the
state refuses to connect the villages to basic services like water
and electricity – despite the fact that nearby Israeli-Jewish
settlements are given all the support possible.
As
Basma Abu-Qwaider, one Palestinian Naqab villager, explains in the
report:
“Google
Maps acts in a discriminatory manner towards the unrecognised village
the same [way] as the Israeli government does. Google ignores the
existence of these villages just like Israel and for me if you do not
exist on the map it means that you are invisible and that’s exactly
what Israel wants us to be.”
This
solidarity with Israeli racism expressed by Google’s helpful
attitude towards Israel’s wiping of
Palestinians
quite literally off the map extends across the 1967 “Green Line”
ceasefire boundary.
Palestinian
villages even within the “West Bank” area of the Jordan Valley
are not properly mapped by Google either. The report documents that
while Israeli settlements “can be seen when looking at the larger
area of the map” some Palestinian villages are only visible when
zoomed in – and even that only as a result of pressure being put on
by a human rights organisation.
Google
also refuses to recognise or map the reality of Israel’s apartheid
roads system for Palestinians.
As
part of Israel’s ongoing settler-colonisation of Palestine, large
parts of the West Bank – which is ruled by Israeli military decree
– are prohibited access for Palestinians. Many roads are reserved
for the use of Jews only.
Despite
the illegality of these practices under international law, Google’s
route-planning apps do not designate Israeli settlements in the West
Bank as illegal.
7amleh’s
report concludes: “Google Maps, as the largest global mapping and
route planning service, has the power to influence global public
opinion and therefore bears the responsibility to abide by
international human rights standards and to offer a service that
reflects the Palestinian reality.”
Google
should be compelled to end its complicity with Israeli racism and
apartheid.
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* Zelf
noem ik de staat Palestina maar zelden, immers daarmee zou ik
aangeven dat deze staat nog steeds bestaat en daar is geen sprake
van, zelfs niet op de West Bank of in de Gazastrook, beiden in feite
openluchtgevangenissen van de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël........
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