Google Maps vandalized over objections to Israeli-Palestinian border depictions

“Google’s presence in the Palestinian territories, Google.ps, has been defaced by hackers,” who apparently dispute the Google Maps labeling of the Israeli and Palestinian borders, the Post reports.

Google switched from calling its regional search page “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine” in May.

The hackers’ doodling suggested that changing the title of Israel on Google Maps to Palestine would be a “revolution” — and suggesting that visitors listen to R&B singer Rihanna and “be cool.”

A Google spokesperson said in a statement: Some users visiting google.ps have been getting redirected to a different website; Google services for the google.ps domain were not hacked. We’re in contact with the organization responsible for managing this domain name so we can help resolve the problem.

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