The ABC has been accused of being anti-Jewish after the public broadcaster aired a map of the Middle East during a TV bulletin last Thursday that didn’t show Israel.
The incident has infuriated Jewish leaders, however, the ABC has said the map only showed Middle Eastern nations which had laws that allowed rapists to marry their victims and, as it wasn’t relevant to Israel the country was not shown.
An ABC spokesperson said of the offending map: “The map showed countries where this law had already been repealed (in blue) and countries where campaigners were actively trying to have it repealed (in yellow).
“Our understanding is that this law does not exist in Israel, and never has, so it was not shown on the map,” the spokesperson said.
However, the Israel-free map infuriated Australian Jewish leader and activist Avi Yemini who took to Facebook and said: “Last night ABC wiped Israel off their map. They’re literally doing the Islamists dirty work for them.”
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