Overview
- The entry now states, “Today the State of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip are located within this area.”
- UK Lawyers for Israel said the prior depiction erased Israel and echoed the slogan “from the river to the sea,” which it linked to Hamas rhetoric.
- The change followed a formal complaint by UK Lawyers for Israel and a related inquiry by The Telegraph.
- Editor-in-chief Theodore Pappas said the company will review the claims and adjust content if needed.
- Critics also challenged language suggesting “Palestine” stretched back thousands of years, noting historians trace the name to Hadrian’s renaming of Judea after 135 CE.