Apple has removed an application called ThirdIntifada from its App Store following complaints that it encouraged and glorified violence against Israel.
Israeli minister of public affairs Yuli Edelstein sent an email to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs calling for the "immediate removal" of the application.
He described ThirdIntifada as "an anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist application that (...) calls for an uprising against Israel", according to Haaretz.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre also complained about the app, which it said "contains anti-Israel content – articles, photographs of 'martyrs' and stories – and updates its users on further incitements to protest and violence."
Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said the app was removed "because it violates the developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people."
Now, all of this may be true (as opposed to hysterical, bigoted bullying) and, according to the rights of private property, I suppose Apple can do what it wants with its services; however, this is also the tech company that sold an application called IMussolini... I suppose no one finds fascism offensive?
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