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Last update - 14:16 15/07/2009
U.K. upholds ban on 'misleading' Israel tourism ad
By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press
Tags: West Bank, Israel News, Gaza

A British advertising watchdog says a tourism poster cannot be displayed because it suggests the West Bank and Gaza Strip are part of Israel.

The Advertising Standards Authority on Wednesday upheld complaints about the ad produced by the Israeli Government Tourist Office and displayed in London subway stations.

It featured a map of the country that included the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, as well as the Golan Heights, seized by Israel in 1967.
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The watchdog says the ad was misleading because it "implied that those territories were part of the state of Israel."

Israel's tourism ministry says the map was intended to depict areas in and around Israel, not send a political message.

The ASA upheld the ban despite the map's delineation of the Palestinian territories.

"We noted that the map showed border lines for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, but we also noted that those border lines were faintly produced and difficult to distinguish on the map itself," the ASA said.

"We understood that the borders and status of the occupied territories of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights were the subject of much international dispute, and because we considered that the ad implied that those territories were part of the state of Israel, we concluded that the ad was misleading," according to the ASA's Web site.
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  1.   This is common practice 11:30  |  Axel 15/07/09
  2.   How about a ban on all PA logos? 11:41  |  David 15/07/09
  3.   Wait for it here it comes... 11:41  |  Ola 15/07/09
  4.   # 1 12:06  |  Dre 15/07/09
  5.   #1 12:08  |  Dre 15/07/09
  6.   Greater Israel fan club will be disappointed Syria`s not in. 12:17  |  Michael 15/07/09
  7.   # 2 david 12:25  |  Axel 15/07/09
  8.   Laughing out loud 12:27  |  Chris Linthwaite 15/07/09
  9.   Ola 12:40  |  Tip 15/07/09
  10.   I don`t see a problem here 12:46  |  Natallie Durson 15/07/09
  11.   Way to go! 12:48  |  Andrea 15/07/09
  12.   Axel Yep.... it`s all Israel... 12:52  |  CJ 15/07/09
  13.   Bravo UK 12:57  |  Andy 15/07/09
  14.   "Chris" Yoyne Lintwit ,concentrate upon Islas Malvinas ,usurped 13:07  |  Absolute Sweden 15/07/09
  15.   #5 Dre---thats because they dont have any borders 13:19  |  Labhras 15/07/09
  16.   But its ok that the official PA flag shows all of Israel....... 13:24  |  TNT 15/07/09
  17.   Areas 14:15  |  Axel 15/07/09
  18.   TRUE: W.BANK IS JUDEA AND SAMARIA.! KEEP SAYING IT AGAIN & AGAIN 14:18  |  the Nutcracker))))) 15/07/09
  19.   Judea and Samarian part of historic Israel 14:22  |  David Marks 15/07/09
  20.   Advertising Norms- should not be political 14:24  |  nadav 15/07/09
  21.   Of course they`ll complain cos laws are for others not Israel 14:26  |  maira 15/07/09
  22.   Sad news for The Nutcracker # 12 14:33  |  Clickfool 15/07/09
  23.   U.K. upholds ban on `misleading` Israel tourism ad 14:34  |  proud american 15/07/09
  24.   # 12 nutcracker 14:35  |  Axel 15/07/09
  25.   Funny reaction 15:01  |  Traveller 15/07/09
  26.   typical of the UK to overreact to a map 15:16  |  SZ 15/07/09
  27.   The Map Is Clearly Political 15:28  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/07/09
  28.   # 13 traveller 15:29  |  Axel 15/07/09
  29.   # 18 sz 15:36  |  Axel 15/07/09
  30.   Axel the hypocrite 15:47  |  Mike B 15/07/09
  31.   No Problem 15:51  |  Euro Allergic 15/07/09
  32.   Nutcracker Is Delusional 15:52  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/07/09
  33.   ASA ARE A BUNCH OF ANTI SEMITES 16:01  |  SID LEVINE 15/07/09
  34.   From the ASA website 16:01  |  Axel 15/07/09
  35.   to SZ 16:01  |  Mario 15/07/09
  36.   For SZ # 18 16:04  |  Clickfool 15/07/09
  37.   # 22 mike 16:04  |  Axel 15/07/09
  38.   Mik B and His Enlightened Terminology 16:11  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/07/09
  39.   MikeB 22, Are you comparing GrossDeutchland to GrossIsrael? 16:15  |  Michael 15/07/09
  40.   " Misleading" ad 16:18  |  Mi 15/07/09
  41.   #10 16:23  |  EE 15/07/09
  42.   David 16:44  |  Pablo Luis 15/07/09
  43.   Well it is! 17:00  |  ben 15/07/09
  44.   Map 17:14  |  Louis Fried 15/07/09
  45.   Israel Tourism Ad 17:29  |  RonH 15/07/09
  46.   If Israel disagrees 17:37  |  Chris Linthwaite 15/07/09
  47.   Poor Misinformed Readers 17:49  |  Shmuel 15/07/09
  48.   So you want to boycott Israel? 17:50  |  Yonatan 15/07/09
  49.   How to change history 18:05  |  Yehuda 15/07/09
  50.   #45 Louis Fried 18:09  |  Sterling 15/07/09
  51.   as usual ignborance is bliss in the uk at asa 18:10  |  vhardman 15/07/09
  52.   #15 labarse of arabia and the map of ireland 18:14  |  v hardman 15/07/09
  53.   Its really the Irony of (border)history that most of the sights 18:23  |  Kris Lazar 15/07/09
  54.   Historical facts ???!?!?! 18:25  |  Claudia 15/07/09
  55.   # 44 louis 18:25  |  Axel 15/07/09
  56.   ASA criteria 18:27  |  r cummings 15/07/09
  57.   The "borders" are marked on that map. 18:28  |  Ben 15/07/09
  58.   To Ben from Toronto 18:32  |  Claudia 15/07/09
  59.   So Fix the Poster - Easy 18:43  |  Mark of Lewiston 15/07/09
  60.   # 19 david 18:43  |  Axel 15/07/09
  61.   To Mario in Beirut, Palestine is NOT a country 19:15  |  DavidAK 15/07/09
  62.   # re ben 19:19  |  Axel 15/07/09
  63.   #55 Ben of Pennsylvania 19:25  |  Chris Linthwaite 15/07/09
  64.   Map of Israel 19:25  |  Bird 15/07/09
  65.   Claudia from Montreal, please check YOUR facts 19:27  |  DavidAK 15/07/09
  66.   #51 Victor Hardhead aka Paul Harris--thanks for proving you know 19:29  |  Labhras 15/07/09
  67.   Jewish National Fund Pishkas 19:43  |  bronxite10 15/07/09
  68.   #50- Maps 19:50  |  Louis Fried 15/07/09
  69.   Common pro-Israeli response in cases like this 19:52  |  Joe 15/07/09
  70.   #55 Axel 19:52  |  Louis Fried 15/07/09
  71.   UK ad 20:18  |  Roberta 15/07/09
  72.   # 68 louis 20:33  |  Axel 15/07/09
  73.   To Claudia... your wrong 20:34  |  ben 15/07/09
  74.   Northern Ireland / Falklands are not the same 20:54  |  Jan 15/07/09
  75.   #60 Ad to promote Israel 21:12  |  David Marks 15/07/09
  76.   please Brits don`t come to Israel 21:20  |  Connie 15/07/09
  77.   #30 Mike B --you got a lot of cahones. 22:02  |  Labhras 15/07/09
  78.   #73 ben in toronto--where did the french get it fr 3rd try 22:13  |  Labhras 15/07/09
  79.   #66 labarse of arabia and more comedy 22:14  |  v hardman 15/07/09
  80.   #74 jan is totally mixed up in his assertions 22:20  |  v hardman 15/07/09
  81.   Drawing the map the British way 22:30  |  Richard 15/07/09
  82.   It is all Israel 22:51  |  In the Torah 15/07/09
  83.   DavidAK - Israel never was a country too 22:59  |  Scholar 15/07/09
  84.   To Sterling (# 50). Response to Louis Fried 23:49  |  flyingdoc57 15/07/09
  85.   Natallie Durson 00:05  |  alizarin 16/07/09
  86.   ben "well is it?" 00:08  |  Shoshalhaifa 16/07/09
  87.   claudia 00:12  |  alan 16/07/09
  88.   For Roberta # 71 00:14  |  Clickfool 16/07/09
  89.   UN resolution 181 00:22  |  Muskens 16/07/09
  90.   v hardman knows zit about law 00:24  |  Llyn 16/07/09
  91.   Darwin`s Theory of Evolution 00:43  |  Capt Black 16/07/09
  92.   # 73 ben 00:45  |  Axel 16/07/09
  93.   # 68 louis on maps 00:54  |  Axel 16/07/09
  94.   A businessman`s view 02:03  |  Axel 16/07/09
  95.   The English 02:21  |  A Historian 16/07/09
  96.   SUPPORT SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE! 03:28  |  MichaelF 16/07/09
  97.   To Joe in Philly 03:44  |  utagawa 16/07/09
  98.   Reality! 05:18  |  Nick 16/07/09
  99.   Map 05:39  |  Namresh 16/07/09
  100.   #41 and Natalie Durson 07:10  |  Victor 16/07/09
  101.   To Bird from Chester #64 09:54  |  Juju 16/07/09
  102.   #83 to the (not) Scholar 13:14  |  Hastaroth 16/07/09
  103.   What is the point? 14:19  |  Doron 16/07/09
  104.   Well done Britain ... 19:38  |  Dr. Ben 16/07/09
  105.   # 96 michaelf 21:41  |  Axel 16/07/09
  106.   It`s not the same situation, Traveller 00:18  |  The Truth 17/07/09
  107.   IT IS STILL THE PROMISED LANDno matter what its called 07:56  |  RME 18/07/09
  108.   Hutzpah in showing the map 14:23  |  Jack 22/07/09
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