{"id":2085551,"date":"2023-10-31T15:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-tech-companies-remove-israel-from-maps-as-regime-backs-hamas\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:57:02","slug":"chinese-tech-companies-remove-israel-from-maps-as-regime-backs-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-tech-companies-remove-israel-from-maps-as-regime-backs-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Tech Companies Remove Israel From Maps as Regime Backs Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-tech-companies-remove-israel-from-maps-as-regime-backs-hamas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2085551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t(Khamenei.ir via Wikimedia Commons)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Two of China&#8217;s largest tech companies removed Israel&#8217;s name from their online maps. The move comes as the communist country&#8217;s government-controlled internet is rampant with anti-Semitic messages.\t<\/p>\n<p>On both online maps\u2014provided by Baidu, the dominant search engine tech company in China, and Alibaba, the state&#8217;s top e-commerce marketplace\u2014Israel&#8217;s borders are marked without a label, even though Israel is an internationally recognized nation, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/israel-hamas-gaza-war-latest\/card\/israel-goes-unnamed-on-china-online-maps-aY5VjRWIlsnSMuASZNF2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While China&#8217;s government has tried to appear neutral in the Hamas-Israel conflict, messaging from its state-controlled media shows otherwise.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 China has REMOVED ISRAEL from its online maps, including Baidu and Alibaba! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UwcD86N3Pz\">pic.twitter.com\/UwcD86N3Pz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hend F Q (@LadyVelvet_HFQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LadyVelvet_HFQ\/status\/1719184008460857561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While smaller nations, such as Luxembourg, are clearly named on Baidu&#8217;s and Alibaba&#8217;s maps, Israel is only marked by two of its major cities.<\/p>\n<p>When Hamas brutally attacked Israel on Oct. 7, leaving over 1,400 Israelis dead, the Chinese Communist Party responded with calls for a ceasefire and peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To end the cycle of conflict between Palestine and Israel, it is essential to restart the peace talks, implement the two-state solution and settle the Palestinian question fully and properly through political means,&#8221; Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202310\/t20231009_11158305.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement<\/a> two days after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Though China&#8217;s Middle East diplomacy remains ambiguous, its state-controlled internet has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/28\/world\/asia\/china-israel-hamas-antisemitism.html?partner=slack&#038;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been flooded<\/a> with anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian messaging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jews always talk about how badly they were treated during World War II and throughout history. But you can&#8217;t ask why. Otherwise, you are called a racist or that you envy their money,&#8221; one commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/chinese-companies-remove-israel-from-digital-maps-as-xi-backs-palestine-653309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a post with over 2,000 likes on Weibo, a Chinese state-monitored social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>A prominent professor of international relations at Shanghai&#8217;s Fudan University, Shen Yi, &#8220;likened Israel&#8217;s attacks to acts of aggression perpetrated by Nazis,&#8221; the <em>New York Times <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/28\/world\/asia\/china-israel-hamas-antisemitism.html?partner=slack&#038;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.\t<\/p>\n<p>The state-sponsored newspaper\u00a0<em>China Daily <\/em>on Monday published an editorial that declared the United States on the &#8220;<a title href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202310\/23\/WS6536627fa31090682a5ea374.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrong side of history in Gaza<\/a>&#8221; and criticized Washington for &#8220;blindly backing Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Baidu nor Alibaba have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/chinese-companies-remove-israel-from-digital-maps-as-xi-backs-palestine-653309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a> the reason for removing Israel from their maps, according to Indian news source WION.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Khamenei.ir via Wikimedia Commons) Two of China&#8217;s largest tech companies removed Israel&#8217;s name from their online maps. The move comes as the communist country&#8217;s government-controlled internet is rampant with anti-Semitic messages. On both online maps\u2014provided by Baidu, the dominant search engine tech company in China, and Alibaba, the state&#8217;s top e-commerce marketplace\u2014Israel&#8217;s borders are marked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":2085552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}