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The airline Jet Blue has recently changed its in-flight maps. Now on its screens appears a map wherein the word “Israel” has been completely overlaid, in text of a much larger size, with the words “Palestinian Territory.” No explanation for the change has been given by Jet Blue. More on this disturbing toponymic effacement can be found here: “JetBlue Airways changes Israel’s borders and name to ‘Palestinian Territories,’” Jerusalem Post, September 4, 2024:
American airline JetBlue Airways has updated their in-flight map to show the words “Palestinian Territories” in significantly larger text than the word “Israel,” to the point where it is overlaid on the entire state of Israel, N12 reported Tuesday evening.
Hodaya Knafo, an Israeli woman studying in the United States, told N12 that she was on a domestic flight from Miami to San Diego when she tried to show another passenger where Israel was located on her seat’s personal screen. “The label was prominently displayed in a way that didn’t seem innocent,” she said, and additionally, the borders were incorrect.”
According to the map, Israel’s northern border does not include the Golan Heights….
Someone at Jet Blue decided to remove from its screen map of Israel the Golan Heights, which was annexed by the Jewish state in 1981. This was not an accident, but a clear political statement: the Golan annexation is illegitimate, and we refuse to show it as part of Israel.
Wanting to show a seatmate just how small her country was, Ms. Knafo was shocked to see it even smaller than she knew it to be, stripped of the Golan Heights. And what’s more, the overlaid large-text “Palestinian Territories” made it almost impossible to make out the small-text toponym “Israel.”
Along with the removal of the Golan Heights, “They don’t show a division of the West Bank, so it doesn’t seem like that’s what they meant by the ‘Palestinian Territory’ label.” Knafo continued, “Also, I think this is new because I don’t remember seeing something like this on previous flights.”…
There is no separate designation for the “West Bank” on the JetBlue map, which meant, Knafo reasoned, that “Palestinian Territories” referred not only to the “West Bank,” but rather, to all of the territory west of the Jordan River. How many JetBlue passengers will come away with that distinct, and dangerous, impression? Are we supposed to ignore the territories assigned to the future Jewish state by the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine, which included all of the land “from the river to the sea”? And how many passengers will come away believing that the Golan Heights are not part of Israel?
This example of cartographical malfeasance needs to be brought to the attention of Jewish groups who, in turn, should be pressuring JetBlue to return to its previous maps, where a small-type “Israel” is not covered over by a large-type “Palestinian Territories,” and the Golan Heights is properly shown as part of Israel. And if JetBlue refuses, there is always the threat of a boycott.
The DEI hires doing what they are forced to be hired to do.
Israel can easily rescind Jet Blue’s landing rights.
Does it even serve Israel?
JB doesn’t fly to Israel. But you could’ve looked it up.
ITS SO HARD TO FLY LIKE A EAGLE WHEN YOU WORK FOR TURKEYS
Good line, but that’s an undeserved slam on turkeys (though they are tasty). I would substitute “Dodo” for “Turkey” in that link. Seems like a better metaphor (couldn’t fly and became extinct, which would be a desirable result for the Democrat Party — and the sooner the better for the Republic and its citizens).
Boycott them, Divest them and Sanction them.
100%. That is the only way to deal with this kind of egregious corporate posturing.
Jet Blue, get yourself educated you Jew-Hating morons.
“Their names indicate that they are not Palestinians. They came to work here in the Jewish villages (years ago) but there was a decision by the Arab League NOT to allow them to return (to their home countries) but to stick them in refugee camps with @UNRWA providing for them.”
“What are Palestinians? Look at their last names. Al-Masri. What is Al-Masri? From Egypt (Mizraim). Masarwah is Egyptians, plural. Al-Khurani from the Horan in Syria. Al-Hijazi from Hijazi in today’s Saudi Arabia. Sorani – Tyre from Lebanon. Sidawi from Sidon. (Tyre and Sidon are mentioned in Joel chapter 3 as the people who sold Jews as slaves to the Greeks). Trabolsi from Tripoli in Lebanon. Karachi from Karak in Jordan. Zarqawi from Zarqa (city in Jordan). Al Faiyumi from Faiyum in Egypt. Bushnak – Bosnians. Halabi from Haleb in Syria.…
One more airline I have to boycott, not that I fly anymore. The “friendly skies” have disintegrated into the DEI skies.
A good reason not to fly Jet Blue — who the heck knows where they will take you.
Not sure they are “forced.” More likely they are enthusiastically promoting all the DEI policy initiatives. Go to JetBlue.com and scroll down to the bottom of the page for the link to a section labeled “JetBlue in Action”. You will see a category link for “DEI”. Look at the content on that page. It reads like it was lifted from a DNC party doc. Just what we need for an airline: diversity hires in place of hires based on competence and experience.