The BBC has published a map on its website, which indicates that Jerusalem is not occupied by Israel.
This graphic (see above) was used to illustrate at least two stories on the BBC website in recent months.
It can be viewed online two thirds of the way down a story titled “Israel: Hamas ‘will pay price’ after teenagers found dead.” The map shows the city of Jerusalem as being wholly inside Israel. In reality, Jerusalem is under Israeli military occupation.
The false map was also used at the bottom of a story from 23 September titled “Israel kills Palestinians suspected of teenagers’ murders.” However, following a complaint from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), made on 8 October, the map was altered, and Jerusalem is now depicted as nudging the Green Line — which separates present-day Israel from the territories it captured in 1967.
Although those territories include East Jerusalem, the entire city is depicted as being within Israel even in the revised map.
The BBC’s decision to deliberately move the physical location of the city on a map and place it within Israel defies belief.
However, it does not defy understanding. In 2013, following a challenge from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), the BBC Trust ruled that BBC journalists were not being inaccurate if they referred to Jerusalem, in its entirety, as an Israeli city. more
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