Posted on 04/14/2010 10:49:37 PM PDT by sofaman
Officials deem image misleading, as it is in "occupied territories."
Images of the Western Wall are no longer allowed in Israeli tourism ads in the UK, after regulators deemed it misleading, as it is in the “occupied territories of the West Bank.”
The Advertising Standard Agency ruled on Wednesday following a complaint that a tourism ad containing a picture of the Western Wall with the Dome of the Rock in the background misleadingly implied that east Jerusalem was part of the State of Israel, resulting in false advertising.
“We noted the ad stated, ‘You can travel the entire length of Israel in 6 hours. Imagine what you can experience in 4 days,” and, “Visit... now for more itineraries in Israel,” and considered that readers were likely to understand that the places featured in the itinerary were all within the State of Israel,” the Advertising Standard Agency said in its ruling.
“We understood, however, that the status of the occupied territory of the West Bank was the subject of much international dispute, and because we considered that the ad implied that the part of east Jerusalem featured in the image was part of the State of Israel, we concluded that the ad was likely to mislead,” the ruling continued.
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WHAT???????????
There is no Britain anymore. It is a full fledged islamic republic...if you can call anything islamic a republic. I expect to see the queen in a burqa sometime real soon now.
Jesus wept.
Replace the ad with one of a gay bar - that would be much more cost effective in the UK.
So terribly sad.
The Labour Party and its leftist stooges should be tossed out on June 8th. They grovel before all things Islamic..
If Britain had anything to sell, it would be worth a boycott..
Darn Brits never got over being booted out by the Jews of Israel. Bunch of confused cry baby lefties that would have stunned George Orwell.
The Kotel is is East Jerusalem? It sure doesn’t feel like that when you go there. It seems like Israel. The worshipers of the false prophet have the entire Temple Mount and the the nasty Brits begrudge the Jews the little retaining wall down below.
If it’s not in Israel, then in which country is it? “Palestine”? Are they going to ban tourism ads for China if there are pictures of Tibet?
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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It is occupied territories.
The heart of Israel, the Holy of Holies, is “occupied” by arab pagans.
TRAITOROUS BUSTARDS FROM HELL.
May their vacations be exactly whatever God would deliver to them.
Lime-eating, Muslim-appeasing wankers.
Many there still have their T. E. Lawrence Arabist delusions..
East Jerusalem is largey a code word for the old jewish Quarter. More Muslim deception..
WIKIPEDIA-———
History
[edit] Jordanian rule
Main article: Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan
Jerusalem was designated an international city under the 1947 UN Partition Plan. It was not part of either the proposed Jewish or Arab states.
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the western part of Jerusalem was captured by Israel, while East Jerusalem (including the Old City) was captured by Jordan. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War came to an end with the signing of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.[2]
Upon its capture, the Jordanians immediately expelled all the Jewish residents of the Jewish Quarter. All the main synagogues were destroyed, and the Jewish Quarter was bulldozed.[3] The ancient Jewish cemetery on Mount of Olives was desecrated, and the tombstones there were used for construction and paving roads.[3] Jordan also destroyed the Jewish villages of Atarot and Neve Yaakov just north of Jerusalem (their sites became Jerusalem neighborhoods after 1967).
East Jerusalem absorbed some of the refugees from West Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods that came under Israeli rule. Thousands of Arabs were settled in the previously Jewish areas of Jerusalem.[2]
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