Google under fire for allegedly deleting 'Palestine'

Palestinian Arab journalists protested over the weekend that Google removed the “Palestine” tag from its maps application, but the web giant says it never had a Palestine tag on its maps to begin with, Haaretz reported on Thursday.

The journalists saw the removal of the name “Palestine” as a part of an Israeli plan to dismiss the existence of a Palestinian entity. A campaign was mounted on Twitter under the #PalestineIsHere hashtag, according to the newspaper.