Overview
- Britannica took down the Britannica Kids map after media inquiries and replaced it with text noting the present-day entities in the territory.
- The original map labeled the entire region from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea as “Palestine” and omitted Israel.
- Editor-in-chief Theodore Pappas said the company will review the legal group’s claims and adjust its content if needed.
- UK Lawyers for Israel argued the depiction echoed the “from the river to the sea” slogan and cited its appearance in Hamas’s 2017 charter.
- Concerns were first raised in November 2024 by author Shari Black, with critics and historians also disputing Britannica Kids’ claims about the term “Palestine” dating back thousands of years.