These “errors” always and in every case go in only one direction.
“Australia Post suspends sale of globe that replaced Israel with Palestine,” Arutz Sheva, April 23, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Australia Post has removed a world globe from its sales outlets and issued an apology after a Jewish man discovered that Israel was labelled “Palestine.”
The Australia Post is the government postal service in Australia.
According to the Australia Jewish News, the Jewish man bought the globe at the Australia Post’s Bentleigh East branch last February as a birthday present for his grandson.
After noticing that Israel was listed as “Palestine,” he contacted the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), an Australian Jewish advocacy group, to inform them of the situation, to let them know how upset he was and to say that he was returning the globe.
There was a second related error on the globe, with the name Israel appearing on the globe above the area labelled Palestine, in the region where Lebanon is located.
It was printed across a thick border, so only the letters “Isra” were identifiable.
The globe was manufactured by the Discovery company, whose products are common in Australia Post outlets.
An Australia Post spokesperson told the Australian Jewish News that sales of the globe have been suspended and that they “apologize for any offence caused.”
ThreeSixy Group, who produced the globe for Discovery, blamed the error on “a factory misprint” and stated that the mistake would be immediately corrected….
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcLJ_mjGAyQ
Infidel says
Maybe they can do what Google Maps does: when a device is in one country, say Israel, show all of Israel, Judea and Samaria as ‘Israel’; the moment one drives from Netanya to Tulkaram, immediately call all of that ‘Palestine’. This sort of thing is done elsewhere: the Gulf is called the Persian Gulf in Farsi or if viewed in Iran, and Arabian Gulf if viewed in Arabic or in the Arab countries. Similarly, in India, all of Kashmir, including ‘Azad Kashmir’, is shown as a part of India, but the moment one moves into Pakistan, all of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are shown as a part of Pakistan
They’ll just have to make a globe w/ an always-on cellular connection. Incidentally, why is a post office of any country making or distributing globes?
gravenimage says
Infidel–with all respect–pretending that Israel has been wiped out is not something done everywhere.
This is not just opinion. For instance, I don’t like the tyranny of North Korea–but I am not pretending that this nation does not exist.
Infidel says
Gravenimage, true! I’m not a fan of pretending that reality is something other than what it is. Although I support India owning all of Kashmir, it’s undeniable that Pakistan is in actual control of a good chunk of it. However, in India, any map that shows that reality has a government stamp on it claiming that it’s inauthentic. Which is why mapping software companies make this change depending on the location of the device
In Israel’s case, I’d only suggest that for countries that refuse to recognize Israel – the Pali territories, Syria, Turkey(?), Iran… Not countries that might be supportive of the Palis but don’t live in an alternate universe, like EU countries
Keith O says
These are the same guys who print maps with Tibet totally removed.
Infidel says
One of China’s adversaries – be it Japan or India or Australia – should put out maps that show Tibet as an independent country, but in parenthesis, mention (under illegal Chinese occupation). That would be true to reality, while it would also create a perception to all who see it that the Chinese occupation is illegitimate
Of course, such a company has to have a mission to be free of Chinese money and influence
Keith O says
Or,,,a map that shows China listed as “contaminated waste land”.
That would get Whinnie the Poo pissed off!
gravenimage says
Australia: Government postal service distributes globe replacing Israel with ‘Palestine,’ then blames ‘misprint’
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Laziness in choosing this globe–or something worse?
tim gallagher says
It would be interesting to know whether this inaccuracy was intentional, on the part of the manufacturer, or not. As for the post offices in Australia, I don’t know if it is the same all over the world, but they seem to sell all sorts of things these days. School text books,cards and endless different little trinkets as well. I doubt whether they have a clue about all these odd things that are sold in the post office branches and probably didn’t know about what was on this globe. I think parcel deliveries to people who have bought things online is the main activity of the Post Office these days.
Infidel says
Yeah, I think packages would be the prime business of post offices these days: in this era of texts and email, how many people are there remaining who’ll send a letter, when one knows that the delivery is instantaneous in the former case, while taking days in the latter? At least here in the US, at my local post office, there ain’t much to buy there other than stamps, postcards and a few other items. Oh, and one could get one’s passport made or renewed
tim gallagher says
I’m a dinosaur when it comes to technology, Infidel, and always have been, so I do go to the post office fairly often. I was at a branch of the post office a few days ago and someone was taking a long time (maybe getting a passport or something like that) and I was looking around at all the little things they sold there. Lots of odd little things. It seems strange that they have school text books for sale, etc. It is probably a bit of a battle for some branches to make much money, so I guess they try anything. At 71 years old, and as someone who has always been hopeless with technology, I doubt whether I will progress much. I look up a bit of news and other information, I visit Jihad Watch and otherwise I mostly listen to and watch people performing music on youtube and I google the chords of songs that I want to learn to play and sing. I may have to learn a bit as I want to try to get some songs I have written out to performers out here who might agree to perform them. But technology is not my thing. But I certainly admit that there is fantastic stuff of musical performances there on youtube and other very useful information.
James Lincoln says
tim,
At this rate, post offices will soon start selling things like rotisserie chickens, hubbard squash, fan belts, etc.
Infidel says
Actually, at this point, why don’t they let companies like Krogers or Sheetz add postal services to their list of services offered? Or more appropriately, Staples or Office Max as well? The latter 2 particularly might be floundering w/ the increasing tendency to go paperless, so they might find that offering something like postal services could keep them going. That would also open up other opportunities for them to double as a small scale shipping company, while leaving the large scale shipping to the likes of UPS, FedEx, DHL and others
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, James and Infidel. Actually, in the news just yesterday here in Australia, there was a union official, who represents the postal workers, saying that the Federal Government is in the process of farming out the postal delivery to private companies, and he was saying that it was being done sneakily. I had heard about this before. I don’t take a lot of notice of this particular issue, but I do think that franchisees who have put their money into running a branch of Australia Post would be dreading what might happen if they had lots of competition from private companies. James,what you mention there about selling chickens isn’t far from what branches of Australia Post look like. Almost like flea markets. The thing is that I doubt whether anyone buys the stuff they have there – I mean school text books!. I was surprised to read this report about the man buying a globe at the post office. There you go, someone did buy something there. I would probably go somewhere else to buy a globe.
Jerry says
Wasn’t OZ originally a penile colony?
Jerry says
According to the original League of Nations’ Mandate on Palestine the whole of the then Palestine was meant to become a national home for the Jewish People.
Unfortunately, the British Government, strangely under the influence Winston Churchil, decided it was more expedient for them to carve up the Middle East differently, by establishing what was meant to be puppet kingdoms in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, even Iran and last, but not least, Palestine.
Shortly after accepting the Mandate on Palestine they rushed and removed about 82% of the original land of Palestine to create a fresh, previously non existent Muslim kingdom they called Trans Jordan.
Since it was sparsely populated and they could not find any so called Palestinians to lead religiously, politically or economically, they imported from the Hejaz (area of Mecca and Medina) Abdullah bin Hussein bin Ali, the second son of the then Sharif (not Sheriff) and Emir (king) of Mecca and installed him as their coopted Emir of Trans Jordan.
That left the so called Palestine shrunk to only about 18% of the original Palestine.
The British then armed, equipped and trained and officers the Trans Jordan military, as they did originally with Iraq and Egypt, and instead of allowing Jews to migrate to and find refuge in Palestine, they restricted Jewish immigration to what was meant to be their national home, even in the days of Nazi Golocaust.
Besides first establishing an unneeded Muslim state on most of the land of Palestine, did the British ever create the originally promised national home for the Jewish People in Palestine?
No on your life. When the the turmoil and chaos the British originally fostered caused the.land ti be practically ungovernable, the British abdicated and left and the Jewush population declared their own independence, and immediately were attacked by seven British armed and equipped Muslim states.
JCA Reid says
Perhaps the Aussies should call the area by its original name……. JUDEA. The Romans changed the name to SYRIA PALESTINA after the final phase of the Jewish Revolt at Masada was over.
Then again, i thought the Muslims would be up in arms as showing the Earth as a Globe, when Mohammed & their Texts state that the Earth is Flat!
For a laugh, go to Youtube & watch: “IRAQI TV DEBATE – Is the Earth Flat?”. BOTH are Astronomers! & “The Flat Earth of Ibn Baz” He was Saudi Arabia’s TOP Islamic Scholar. One Imam on this final clip is seen stating that Jets cannot fly from the West to the East, because of the spin of the Earth. Then he corrects himself. To get back they have to keep on flying, West to East to get back to their start point!