Apple has been accused of antisemitism after its iPhones started prompting a Palestinian flag emoji when users typed Jerusalem in a text message.
The prompt was first noted by prominent UK Jewish TV presenter Rachel Riley.
In a post on X, Riley says this had started happening after the latest software update. She also notes that other countries had the correct flag appear when typing their capital cities.
“Showing double standards with respect to Israel is a form of antisemitism, which is itself a form of racism against Jewish people,” Riley writes. “Please explain whether this is an intentional act by your company, or whether you have no control over rogue programmers.”
I’m not sure the Israeli government (and to be perfectly clear, this is very obviously coming from the Israeli government) is able to wrap their head around how much they’re absolutely shattering any goodwill they had from most rational people these days. And that’s not even going in to the irreparable damage they’re doing to their geopolitical relationships and alliances.
Bibi doesn’t understand that his power play… didn’t.