From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Charlie Hoyle was published by Muftah on April 19, 2016.
“Israeli Tourist Map of Jerusalem Rewrites History”
The Israeli Ministry of Tourism is removing Palestinian culture from the map, in the most literal sense.
Last month, a new English-language guide to Jerusalem’s Old City was published, featuring fifty-seven tourist sites. Among them, only one was Muslim, five were Christian, while a whopping fifty-one were Jewish. Distributed for free at tourist offices, the map undermines Palestinian political claims to Jerusalem through a deliberate cultural whitewash that re-imagines the historically multi-ethnic and multi-religious city as exclusively Jewish.
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The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.
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