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O’Reilly News reports on Dr Andre Oboler’s research into Political Bias in Google Earth
Caitlyn Martin, Google Earth Delivers Geographic Data, Satellite Imagery, and Political Bias, O’Reilly News, August 29, 2008 Last Friday Media Backspin, the weblog of HonestReporting.com, reported that Google Earth had removed a notation which falsely claimed that the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Yam was built on the ruins of ?Ghawarina, an Arab town which […]
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Andre Oboler, Google Earth: A New Platform for Anti-Israel Propaganda and Replacement Geography, Jerusalem Issue Briefs
Virtual Israel, as represented by Google Earth, is littered with orange dots, many of which claim to represent “Palestinian localities evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.” Thus, Israel is depicted as a state born out of colonial conquest rather than the return of a people from exile. Each dot links to the “Palestine […]