China’s Alibaba and Baidu have dropped Israel’s official name from their digital maps available online. The move comes as Chinese internet is getting inundated with antisemitism following Israel-Hamas war. Watch this video for more.
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Users in China have noticed that the name ‘Israel’ does not appear on online digital maps provided by the likes of Baidu and Alibaba, The Wall Street Journal reported. Chinese internet users have pointed to this development since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out in early October. The report says that while Baidu’s Chinese language online maps demarcate the internationally recognised borders of Israel, they don’t clearly identify the country by name. It is not yet clear when the omission exactly came about.
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