BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – Israel has been erased from a map of the “Arab World” in a local New York City elementary school in favor of “Palestine.”
According to The Free Press, photos from PS 261, a public school in Brooklyn, showed a classroom used for the Arab Culture Arts program featuring a large map under a sign reading “Arab World.” The map included handwritten labels with the names of all the Middle Eastern countries except for Israel. In its place was a label marked “Palestine.”
The Free Press reported the map came from Arab education company Ruman, which lists a Palestinian phone number on its website and sells the map for anywhere between $17 and $156.
The United States has not been immune to certain parts getting retitled. The 2024 Rand McNally map has renamed Texas to Mexico, Utah to Polygamy Territory, and Chicago to Shooting Gallery.