Jerusalem Stateless in International Monopoly -Michal Lando
The battle for Jerusalem took a new direction this week, when a reference to Israel was removed from an on-line poll to select the cities to be featured in the international version of the popular Monopoly board game.
As Jerusalem climbed the ranks, making it to fourth place in an Internet vote to determine the 10 cities to be featured on the new version of the game, it lost an essential component: its country.
As Jerusalem climbed the ranks, making it to fourth place in an Internet vote to determine the 10 cities to be featured on the new version of the game, it lost an essential component: its country.
Jerusalem became the only city to be listed without a country name.
However, following complaints, all country names were removed from the list. According to Hasbro Company spokesman Wayne Charness, "Israel" was removed from the list by a mid-level employee following e-mails from angry Palestinians.
(Jerusalem Post)
(Jerusalem Post)
1 comment:
I don't know if this is more egregious, or just sad. Maybe pathetic is the best word to sum this up.
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