Israel’s Sports and Culture Minister Miri Regev accused the NBA of “gross and blatant interference” and of “legitimising the division of the State of Israel”. “I would like to express my disapproval and am asking you to immediately remove the ‘Palestine – occupied territory’ from the list of states,” Regev said. The NBA changed the name to “Palestinian Territories” and apologised for what it called an “errant listing”. “We do not produce the country listings for NBA.com and as soon as we became aware of it, the site was updated,” NBA spokesman Mike Bass told AFP. The United Nations refers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, territories Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War, as “the occupied Palestinian territory”.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2017 19:18 UTC