Jordan Overruns Israel

Breaking News: Scholastic Conquers Israel for Islam

Arab textbooks are not the only ones erasing Israel from their maps. Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books, has also eliminated the Jewish state in a book.

“Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt,” part of the popular Geronimo Stilton children’s series translated from Italian and published by Scholastic in 2012, tells the story of a group of investigative journalists involved in a treasure hunt in Egypt.

The story commences with a map of modern Egypt and its neighboring countries. While Sudan, Libya and Saudi Arabia appear clearly on the map, the territory of Israel is completely covered by Jordan, painted red. A line indicating the Israeli border with the Sinai Peninsula does appear in the book.

Biggest children’s book publisher erases Israel from map

Interesting how it’s always Israel that gets left out, if a country’s going to get “overlooked,” eh? In all fairness, though, they also gave Gaza and the West Bank to the Jordanians.

But maybe Scholastic actually intended to conquer Jordan for the Jews…then tacked the wrong name on the new territory. Well, they’ll be returning Israel to the Jews in a new version. It’d be pretty funny if… Nah, don’t even bother dreaming on. 😀

Meanwhile, Scholastic and its workmanship are taking a pounding on Amazon:

I suppose you could buy your own copy of the book as a collector’s item. Or a whole pile of them to sell on eBay in a year or two. 🙄