Budget retailer Poundland has reportedly stocked a globe which features Palestine, but fails to include the State of Israel. A shopper discovered the globe in London\u2019s Kilburn High Street branch.<\/p>\n
They had wanted to purchase the globe to teach children world geography. The \u201cunique desk accessory \u2026 perfect for any student<\/em>,\u201d however, appears to ignore the existence of Israel.<\/p>\n The globe, which is distributed by Birmingham-based firm H&O, is also available at Poundland\u2019s Irish division, Dealz, for \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1.49.<\/p>\n Commenting on the error, one Twitter user, said: \u201cThe real truth lies on the Poundland globe, the haters still gonna hate … Israel illegally claim!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Another user, said: \u201cIntelligent people do not shop in Poundland, I am not, Jews not, Israelis definitely not, so no worries<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n On Facebook, one user said: \u201cWhat a surprise 1st Air France now Poundland. Complain to their head office and boycott till Israel is put on the map.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking to Jewish News, a Poundland spokesperson said: \u201cThe globe features a key on the underside which includes a number of countries including Israel.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n @JewishNewsUK<\/a> Hi, we are investigating the product further with our supplier to determine if improvements could be made.<\/p>\n \u2013 Poundland (@Poundland) August 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Why the occupied Palestine territories, rather than Israel, are given a caption equivalent to a full nation state, however, is not explained.<\/p>\n Poundland is investigating the product further \u201cto determine if improvements could be made.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe would like to thank the customer for bringing this issue to our attention<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Budget retailer Poundland has reportedly stocked a globe which features Palestine, but fails to include the State of Israel. A shopper discovered the globe in London\u2019s Kilburn High Street branch. They had wanted to purchase the globe to teach children world geography. The \u201cunique desk accessory \u2026 perfect for any student,\u201d however, appears to ignore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n