Publisher McGraw-Hill Discontinues Textbook With Map of Palestine

In March 2016, executives at the McGraw-Hill textbook publishing company removed a title from its selection titled Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World. The company, in well- disciplined commissar fashion, destroyed the books held in inventory because they featured a map illustrating "Palestinian loss of land from 1946 to 2000." Apparently, the maps say too much about the US-supported Israeli occupation and expansion of settlements in Palestine and run the risk of corrupting young learners. On the market since 2012, Global Politics was designed to "offer students a number of lenses through which to view the world around them."  Read more.