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Wednesday 03 Feb 2016 - 11:30 Makkah mean time-24-4-1437
Sydney (IINA) – The Australian stationery chain Typo has decided to halt production of the globes that labeled Palestine but not Israel after being threatened with boycotts and charges of anti-Semitism by Israeli supporters, sparking an angry reaction from Palestinian cause advocates.
The Guardian’s Australian edition reported that on January 21 a flurry of customers on the store’s Facebook page stirred up the debate. One commenter asked why Typo was selling a globe “that has wiped Israel from the face of the earth”.
Typo responded that the design was a Mercator projection (a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator) from around 1860 and was “an official map from an international body that has been approved for export.” They said that Israel’s label was left out “purely because there wasn’t enough space to include the name”.
Two hours later the chain said it had “decided to remove the globes from sale in-store and online and will halt all future production”.
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