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donderdag 1 november 2018

Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart

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: ArticleInquiryIsraelMiddle EastOpinionPalestineVideos & 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.

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........

Zie ook:
'Warren (democratisch presidentskandidaat) toont met hulp van Facebook aan dat dit bedrijf niet hoort te gaan over wat wel en niet is toegestaan'

'Facebook: uit gelekte documenten worden de steeds veranderende regels voor censuur op dit platform openbaar gemaakt: Facebook als geheime tak van de VS overheid'

'Two More Spiegel Employees Out After Fake News Scandal ExpandsOfwel: het zoveelste 'gevalletje fake news', gebracht door de reguliere massamedia........

'Facebook censureert foto's van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als 'sexual content''

'Facebook gebruikte 'fake news' beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden'



'Google manipuleerde VS presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 en censureert niet alleen linkse/alternatieve sociale media' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

'Facebook: uit gelekte documenten worden de steeds veranderende regels voor censuur op dit platform openbaar gemaakt: Facebook als geheime tak van de VS overheid'

'Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten'

'Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun a
an de Palestijnen.......'

'De film over de pro-Israëlische lobby in de VS, die Israël verboden wil zien.........'

'Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek'

'Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet.......'

'Britse justitie gaat 'hate crimes' van Labour onderzoeken'


'Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen'