“I did a double take,” said Rosenblatt, a high-tech consultant from Edgemont, New York, who was visiting Israel to see his daughter.

“I was shocked that an American company was falling into some BDS rhetoric,” Rosenblatt said.

According to the most recent study of the US wireless market by the research firm Strategy Analytics, Verizon was America’s largest cell carrier at the end of 2016.

Verizon spokesman Scott Charlston told JNS.org that Ben-Gurion “is close to the Israeli border [with the West Bank] and there are cell sites and wireless signals from different providers on both sides. In general, customers living in or visiting border areas occasionally receive a wireless signal from a cross-border provider. When powering up or leaving airplane mode, the phone connects to the strongest signal available at the time.”

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Charlston also pointed to a similar situation in 2015 involving T-Mobile, in which a customer from the Philadelphia area was greeted with a “Welcome to Palestine” message when he turned on his cell phone in Israel. The Jewish Exponent reported on that incident at the time.

To Rosenblatt, that’s not an acceptable answer.