Out of 193 UN member states, 147 recognise the state of Palestine - as Canada, the UK and France plan to follow suit ...

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Whether Google tinkered with its geographic labeling or Palestine was never given a title in the first place, the internet has caught on. Many Twitter users are expressing indignation and are ...

BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Baidu Maps says it has not labeled the names of Palestine and Israel on its world map for technical reasons, countering the narrative that political motive is at play.

In 2016, #PalestineIsHere began trending after supporters of the Palestinian cause condemned Google for supposedly removing the word “Palestine” from Google Maps, according to the New York Times.

Far from being merely descriptive, they can shape our understanding of the world. In 2021, we debunked a rumor that claimed Google Maps was holding a vote on whether to identify Israel or Palestine.

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one of the longest-running and most violent disputes in the world.

In a lengthy Instagram caption, Vogue Arabia wrote that “the image, which showcases Palestine in place of Israel, was quickly shared by some of the Arab World’s [sic] most prominent ...

Notes: See A Gazetteer of the Place Names Which Appear in the Small-Scale Maps of Palestine and Trans-Jordan, Jerusalem, 1941. Zena Agha served as Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow from 2017 – 2019. Her ...