Ikea is investigating how Israel was blacked out from world maps that the Scandinavian furniture store sells in its Abu Dhabi store. Ikea Canada spokesperson Madeline Lowenborg-Frick said she suspects the maps, manufactured in France, were vandalized.
Frank Dimant, B'nai Brith Canada's executive vice-president issued a statement saying the disappearance of Israel from the maps sold in one of Ikea's stores in the United Arab Emirates "is reflective of the reality on the ground in the Arab world of most nations refusing to recognize the existence of the Jewish state."
Dimant added: "We applaud the good corporate citizenship Ikea has demonstrated by launching an immediate investigation into this matter and then pulling from its shelves maps that deliberately removed Israel's presence from the Middle East."
Lowenborg-Frick said the company is treating the situation as an isolated incident because there are no reports of anything like it happening at other Ikea locations, including its other outlet in the U.A.E. "It's not representative of the way, as a global company, we do business," she said.
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