{"id":28254,"date":"2012-07-23T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=28254"},"modified":"2017-01-26T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:26:13","slug":"jerusalem-not-capital-israel-rivka-kidron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/jerusalem-not-capital-israel-rivka-kidron\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem is Not the Capital of Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a letter sent out by Rivka Kidron, Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu, after noticing that the BBC Olympic website\u00a0omitted Jerusalem’s status as the capital of the State of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

It came to our attention that the BBC Olympic website<\/a> omitted Jerusalem’s status as the capital of the State of Israel. Each country’s profile on the BBC’s 2012 London Olympics website contains basic information, including a map, country capital and picture. Jerusalem was not listed as the capital of Jerusalem. East Jerusalem on the other hand was labeled as the capital of ‘Palestine’.<\/p>\n

Mark Regev, the Prime Minister’s Foreign Press Advisor and Spokesman, sent a number of letters to the BBC demanding they correct their website. The BBC subsequently made a number of unsuccessful changes, labeling Jerusalem as Israel’s ‘seat of government’. The changes made to their website are inadequate. Furthermore, the single picture representing Israel on the BBC’s Olympic website is that of an IDF soldier confronting a demonstrator. In contrast, pictures on the country profiles of Iran, Syria and Libya, for example, depict peaceful cultural scenes.<\/p>\n

We have opened a Facebook page for this campaign, which will serve this and future campaigns with the object of correcting inaccurate information regarding Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

We urge you to support this important campaign by linking to our Facebook page “Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel” and forwarding this link to your distribution lists:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JerusalemCapitalofIsrael<\/a><\/p>\n

Additional options and suggestions for supporting this campaign are:<\/p>\n