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Britain bans ad promoting tourism to Israel for blurring 1967 borders
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority blocked an advertisement promoting tourism in Israel earlier this week, following complaints that it was “misleading” in implying the occupied territories were part of Israel.
The ad, promoting a new book on northern Israel, first appeared in British newspapers in November 2011. It evoked no less than 350 complaints to the ASA, which oversees and regulates the advertising industry in the United Kingdom.
The complaints came mainly from pro-Palestinian organizations such as Friends of Al-Aqsa and Jews for Justice in Palestine. 
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