Passengers on an Air France flight to Paris noticed something missing from their in-flight map.
An Air France in-flight map omits Israel, according to a passenger who
sent a photo to the Facebook page of the pro-Israel organization Stand
With Us. In the photo of the map, there were only indicators of where
the West Bank and the Gaza strip are.
Since posting that photo,
other members of the Facebook page have started posting their own
photos, taken on Air France flights, of the in-flight maps sans Israel.
In
a letter to Air France chairman and CEO, Frédéric Gagey, the Simon
Wiesenthal Center director for international Relations, Dr. Shimon
Samuels, noted that, “French members of our center have sent us
reportedly captured shots from the English and French language of an Air
France flight-path, taken last week between New York and Paris, and the
locations ‘Israel’ and ‘Tel Aviv’ are glaringly absent.”
The
letter noted that, “We are asked whether Air France has succumbed to the
BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] campaign to delegitimize the
Jewish State by literally wiping it off the map?” Air France issued an
apology, saying they “deeply regret this incident, due to a map scale
and display problem which is currently being resolved.”
In 2009,
British Midland International Airlines, a subset of British Airways,
apologized for omitting Israel from their in-flight maps, also attributed to a technical error.
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