HASBRO TOOK THE ISRAEL OUT OF JERUSALEM

Thanks to Suzanne, who kept trying to tell me this while I was being dense and not getting it. Shock does weird things to your mind.

So here's the story, boys and girls. I just this morning blogged about Hasbro having this contest of world cities to include in its new global version of the Monopoly gameboard, one of those cities being "Jerusalem, Israel."

And now, NOW..........

they've changed the option so that it reads only

"Jerusalem."

No country.

While maybe it was too good to be true that someone, somewhere would publicly admit that Israel's capital city, Jerusalem, is in the country of Israel, I guess someone else, from somewhere else, has convinced Hasbro to make this change.

Gd only knows what happened. Maybe it was a large number of emails, maybe it was something more sinister and now Hasbro is afraid. The enemies of Israel have such a penchant for intimidation, every scenario you can imagine is feasible.

Damnit.

Watch for updates. I have some calls to make.

Comments

[Melvyn]

My email to Hasbro: Subject: Monopoly World Edition - Leaderboard - INVALID VOTES Body: Your table contains an invalid entry. Before this morning, "Jerusalem" has received ZERO votes. How can it already be in fourth place? All votes until today for the city of Jerusalem were for "Jerusalem, Israel". By removing the country, you invalidate those votes. My votes until today were for "Jerusalem, Israel" the capital of my country. You cannot count these votes as votes for "Jerusalem". By singling out my capital city for special treatment, you are committing a racist and discriminatory act. Hardly in the spirit of the "World Edition". Please acknowledge receipt of this email. --------- I'm hoping for a reply. I'm not expecting one.