This article is the first in a series examining the expanding scope of efforts to delegitimize Israel as it fights a war for survival against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.
As a small country in a hostile neighborhood, Israel is overly reliant on international flights for business and tourism. So, it’s troubling when the airline industry joins efforts to delegitimize Israel through manipulated maps and boycotts designed to undermine the Jewish state’s international standing.
On a JetBlue flight in early September, a passenger reported that the in-flight map of the region had the words “Palestinian Territory” overlaid on, and “in significantly larger text” than, the word “Israel.”
Moreover, the in-flight map excluded the Golan Heights, which Israel annexed in 1981, from the Jewish state’s borders.
This was not an isolated incident. In…
