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: Article, Inquiry, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories

    Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley

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.

By Asa Winstanley / Creative Commons / Middle East Monitor / Report a typo

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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 Expands' Ofwel: 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'

Israel demolishes Al-Araqeeb for 135th time, arrests residents

Khan Al-Ahmar resident: ‘We are imprisoned here’

'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'

Israëlische terreur: man wordt gedwongen z'n huis te slopen op de dag van z'n bruiloft.......

Weer een typisch voorbeeld van ongebreidelde terreur: Israël dwong Faisal Abu-Binniyah z'n huis te slopen op de dag van z'n bruiloft...... Volgens Israël had de man geen recht een huis te bouwen in het dorp Wadi al-Na'am, de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël erkent eenvoudigweg het dorp met 13.000 inwoners niet........

Israël voert deze afbraakpolitiek tegen bedoeïendorpen in de Negev (woestijn), om de bedoeïen te herplaatsen in door Israël aangewezen gehuchten, zodat de Joodse gemeenschappen in de Negev kunnen uitbreiden, door zich grond toe te eigenen waarop de bedoeïen woonden......

Mensen wat een ellende en vernedering waarin deze mensen moeten leven, zo heeft Israël een ander bedoeïenendorp, al-Araqib voor de 132ste keer vernietigd, zo meldt Middle East Monitor (MEMO).......* Ongelofelijk dat de wereld Israël dag in dag uit haar gang laat gaan met het vertrappen van Palestijnen en hun (mensen-) rechten......

Deze bedoeïenen zijn ook Palestijnen, waar velen van hen zich vestigden in de Negev, na te zijn verdreven uit hun oorspronkelijke Palestijnse gebieden (voor tijdens en) na de stichting van de zionistische apartheidsstaat Israël in 1948 (bij het verdrijven van deze Palestijnen hebben de terroristische zionisten, ofwel fascisten, een groot aantal Palestijnen vermoord, zoals Israël dit af en aan tot op de dag van vandaag blijft doen......)

Israel forces Palestinian to demolish his home on his wedding day

August 20, 2018 at 11:38 am | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine

A Palestinian man can be seen demolishing his home on his wedding day after he was forced to do so by Israeli forces [Quds TV/Twitter]

Israeli occupation police on Saturday evening forced a Palestinian man in the Negev to demolish his home on his wedding day, Arab48 reported. Faisal Abu-Binniyah in Wadi Al-Naam village was forced to raze the property in which he planned to start his new family, his brother Jalal said, leaving “him without an alternative”.

“The demolition of my brother’s house ended our happiness at his marriage as we were subject to repeated raids by Israeli police and repeated threats to pay high fines if we did not demolish the house,” Jalal told Arab48.

Jalal described the measures of the Israeli police against his family as a “revenge policy”, stating that this is “intentionally planned against Arabs.”

Wadi Al-Naam is the largest unrecognised Arab villages in the Negev with a population estimated to be more than 13,000.

Most of the residents in this village were forced out of their homes by the Israeli occupation forces in 1953. Like all other unrecognized villages they lack the basic infrastructure including access to running water and connection to the national grid.

According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), more than half of the approximately 160,000 Bedouins in the Negev reside in unrecognised villages.

The unrecognised Bedouin villages were established in the Negev soon after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war following the creation of the State of Israel.

Right groups say that the demolition of unrecognised Bedouin villages is a central Israeli policy aimed at removing the indigenous Palestinian population from the Negev and transferring them to government-zoned townships to make room for the expansion of Jewish Israeli communities.

Israel demolishes Al-Araqeeb Village – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

* Zie: Israel demolishes Al-Araqeeb for 132nd time, arrests residents (als ik me niet vergis is al-Araqib niet 132 keer vernietigd, maar 'slechts' 120 keer......)

Zie ook:
'Palestijnse bedoeïenen: vergeten en verjaagd'  MO (Mondiaal Nieuws) 17 oktober 2013.

'De geschiedenis van de Palestijnse Bedoeïenen in de Negev-Naqab' (Een Ander Joods Geluid, 15 juni 2017)

Israëlische terreur in Negev: dorp voor 114de keer 'gebulldozerd'

Anti-Media meldde eergisteren, dat het Palestijnse Bedoeïenendorp al-Araqib voor de 114de keer werd gebulldozerd...... U denkt wellicht, 114 keer, is dat niet wat overdreven, maar zelfs één keer zou één keer teveel zijn!!

De Palestijnse bedoeïenen wonen al een paar duizend jaar in de Negev, maar als het de fascistische apartheidsregering van Israël behaagd, verklaart het bedoeïenen dorpen als niet bestaand en dus illegaal. Dit terwijl illegale Israëlische nederzettingen in het gebied mogen worden uitgebreid, sterker nog, deze worden niet zelden gebouwd op de plek waar eerst een Palestijns bedoeïenendorp werd vernietigd door de fascistische Israëlische overheidsdiensten.........

Al vaker gemeld op deze plek, Israël, haar politie en het Israëlische leger gebruiken nazi-Duitse methoden als vergelding, iets dat begin negentiger jaren zelfs werd toegegeven door officieren uit het Israëlische leger...... Nog een staaltje nazi-Duitse terreur: de bewoners van al-Araqib worden verantwoordelijk gesteld voor de kosten van het bulldozeren van hun huizen, deze kosten zijn nu al ruim de half miljoen dollar gepasseerd..........

Al-Araqib is één van de 35 dorpen, die Israël niet erkend als bestaand....... Lees het artikel Whitney Webb over deze onverdraaglijke gang van zaken. Zoals gewoonlijk is ook voor deze vorm van Israëlische terreur amper of geen aandacht bij de politiek en de reguliere ('onafhankelijke') media in ons land

Israeli Bulldozers Demolish Palestinian Village for 114th Time in Seven Years

June 19, 2017 at 8:04 pm

Written by Whitney Webb

Israeli bulldozers flattened a village inhabited by the ancient Palestinian Bedouins, a tribe that has lived on the land for thousands of years. Israeli authorities have systematically run the indigenous Bedouins off of their land to pave the way for Jewish-only settlements.

(MPN) — Israel Land Authority (ILA) officials, along with Israeli police and several bulldozers, raided and then demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev region this week.

The demolition marked the 114th time that the ILA has destroyed the village, with the first time taking place in 2010 and the most recent prior to Wednesday’s demolition taking place just last month.

Most of the structures that were demolished on Wednesday were tin homes that village residents had built over the course of the last month in order to continue living in the area.

But while the residents of al-Araqib are grappling with the most recent demolition that has wiped out their village, Israeli Jewish communities in the region continue to expand on Palestinian land.

Last, year, the ILA approved five new Jewish-only residential settlements in the Negev, two of which are located where “unrecognized” Palestinian Bedouin villages currently stand.

Several rights groups have argued that the demolition of Bedouin villages is directly related to the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements, describing the policy as a means of removing the indigenous Palestinian population in order to create even more settlements for Jewish-only Israelis.

Since Israel’s inception in 1948, white Jewish-only settlements have been built on indigenous Palestinian land after the indigenous population has been ethnically cleansed in order to accommodate European Jews in beginning their new lives in Israel.

The historic Palestinian Bedouins have lived in the villages since they were forcibly transferred to the sites by an Israeli military order issued in 1956. However, the Bedouins significantly predate the state of Israel, as they have lived in the area for thousands of years as the original Arab ethnic group of the Middle East.

ILA officials have been repeatedly accused by residents of carrying out demolitions with little consideration for the village’s residents. Indeed, instead of providing any resources for the now-homeless villagers, al-Araqib’s residents have been ordered by the Israeli government to pay for the cumulative cost of the 114 demolitions that have been carried out since 2010, a figure which stands at more than 2 million shekels, or roughly $541,000.

However, the Palestinian Bedouins – despite the constant destruction of their homes – have remained defiant, refusing to relocate. Following last month’s demolition, al-Araqib resident Sayyah al-Turi told the Ma’an News Agency “All demolition crimes will not scare us or stop us from rebuilding our homes and holding on to our lands. We will stay here despite the injustice and criminal demolitions, we will not submit to their plans of uprooting and displacing us.”

Al-Araqib is one of 35 Bedouin villages that the Israeli government considers “unrecognized,” even thoughmore than half of the estimated 160,000 Bedouins living in the Negev region reside in such villages. The “unrecognized” classification also prevents Bedouins living in these villages from developing or expanding their communities. It has also led to Israeli authorities refusing to connect the villages to national water and electric grids and refusing to offer their residents healthcare and educational services, despite the fact that the Bedouins are technically Israeli citizens.

Settlement activity on the rise

However, the Israeli demolition of Palestinian housing has become more prominent in 2017, as pushes to expand Israeli settlements and the demolition of indigenous Palestinian homes have both spiked since the year began.

The Israeli NGO Peace Now reported earlier this month that the number of settlements approved in the first half of 2017 is nearly triple the number that was approved in all of 2016, with 7,721 housing units approved since January compared to 2,657 over the entire course of last year.

Demolitions of Palestinian homes within Israel have also picked up in the first half of the year, beginning with a deadly pre-dawn demolition raid on the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in January. A new Jewish-Israeli town called “Hiran” is set to take the village’s place.

The push to expand illegal settlements at all costs has recently brought international condemnation against the Israeli government, with the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan condemning the expansion of illegal settlements, saying this phenomenon is “not conducive” to the peace process.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems less than concerned with such statements, as evidenced by his comments at a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War earlier this month. At the ceremony, Netanyahu promised an audience of Jewish settlers that he was “doing whatever is needed to protect the Jewish settlement enterprise.”

It will likely take more than stern words from foreign governments to convince the Israeli government to abandon its illegal activities, which have compounded the suffering of indigenous Palestinians who are losing their land to modern-day colonization.

By Whitney Webb / Republished with permission / MintPress News / Report a typo

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Zie ook:
'Palestijnse bedoeïenen: vergeten en verjaagd'  MO (Mondiaal Nieuws) 17 oktober 2013.

'De geschiedenis van de Palestijnse Bedoeïenen in de Negev-Naqab' (Een Ander Joods Geluid, 15 juni 2017)

'Israëlische terreur: man wordt gedwongen z'n huis te slopen op de dag van z'n bruiloft.......'