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Google Earth: A New Platform for Anti-Israel Propaganda and Replacement Geography
Publication Date: June 2008
Publisher(s): Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Author(s): Andre Oboler
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Media, telecommunications, and information (Mass media)
Keywords: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Media; Israel advocacy; Internet
Type: Brief
Coverage: Israel
Abstract:
The author details ways in which Google Earth is being used to politicize online geography, to attack Israel's legitimacy, and to falsify historical truth. The author argues that Google ought to remove such polemical items from Google Earth's core layer and treat Israel as it treats other countries on the globe.