The Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem School, a mixed Jewish-Arab school in the capital, is to complain to police about a threatening comment posted on a Google-owned navigation app. "The Bilingual School -- May Their Names be Erased," was added, in Hebrew, to the school's location on the map on Waze, an Israeli-developed mobile app that uses driver data to help people avoid traffic jams. Waze deleted the words after they were brought to its attention on Sunday. A source at the company said the entry had been made by a user who had had permission to list destinations on the map but had now been banned. "I have been in touch with the police and I will file a complaint," said Principal Nadia Kinani. An Israeli court last month jailed two brothers from a far-right Jewish group for two years for a November arson attack, in which a classroom was torched and "Death to Arabs" daubed on a wall. Just over a week ago, a deadly hate crime was carried out in the Palestinian village of Duma. Suspected Jewish extremists torched a Palestinian home, killing an 18-month-old toddler and his father.
Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem targeted on Google-owned app
User on the popular social navigation app Waze renamed the school with derogatory language • Incident reported to police and user has been blocked • Several months ago, Jewish extremist sprayed racist graffiti on walls, torched classroom.
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