Singapore Orders Israel to Remove ‘Unacceptable’ Online Post
- City-state says embassy’s Facebook post was stirring tensions
- Embassy says person responsible has been ‘harshly punished’
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Singapore has ordered the Israel Embassy to take down an “insensitive and inappropriate” social media post that could undermine security in the city-state, in the latest test of traditionally warm ties between the two nations.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, the embassy compared mentions of Israel and Palestine in the Koran, adding that documents and maps “link the land of Israel to the Jewish people as the indigenous people of the land.” The post has since been removed.