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Pro-Palestinian Ads Ignite Firestorm Of Controversy
"I think the ad is very offensive, it's certainly offensive to Jews," said Dovid Efune, the the editor of the Jewish newspaper "The Algemeiner."
July 17, 2012
A seemingly endless debate over politics, religion and territory is coming to a train station near you.
An explosive ad about Israel is now igniting a firestorm of controversy.
The display shows shrinking Palestinian territory in Israel over the years and refers to 4.7 million Palestinians there as refugees.
The ads are appearing in 50 Metro-North stations.
At the train station in White Plains, the politically-charged ad was raising eyebrows.
"That's quite amazing if you ask me," one man told CBS 2′s Scott Rapoport.
Some Jewish leaders said they were concerned.
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"I think the ad is very offensive, it's certainly offensive to Jews," said Dovid Efune, the the editor of the Jewish newspaper "The Algemeiner."
Efune said the ad is anti-Semitic.
"It paints Jews as aggressors, as imperialists, as people that are stealing or taking land from others," Efune said.
Henry Clifford, the chairman of a group called the Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine, spent $25,000 of his own money on the ads.
"The Palestinian people have lost most of their homeland and the map shows exactly what is happened to them," Clifford said.
When asked what he hopes to get out of the ad campaign, Clifford responded by saying he wants to "educate people."
"Simply to open their eyes and let them see what has happened on the map," he said.
Efune is calling for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to take the ads down. However, the MTA said it doesn't restrict ads on the basis of viewpoint and while it doesn't endorse the ad, the posters will remain up.
The Anti-Defamation League, for its part, called the ads "Deliberately misleading, biased and fundamentally anti-Israel."
"Anti-Semitic" is an overused guilt trip for people to continue their atrocities.
There is NO MAP or any DOCUMENT that can prove the contrary.
There is NO MAP or any DOCUMENT that can prove the contrary
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Originally posted by Recollector
There was NEVER a Palestinian state or country.
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
Here is another example on how certain entities will do anything within their power to belittle the Palestinians and the daily hell they live through. Anyone who speaks out against Israel's domestic policy towards the rightful inhabitants of Israel (the Palestinians) will meet the wrath of the Zionist conglomerate.
Pro-Palestinian Ads Ignite Firestorm Of Controversy
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I think the advertisement is pretty bang on.
You should see some of the responses to the advertisement.
"The Palestinian people have lost most of their homeland and the map shows exactly what is happened to them," Clifford said.
When asked what he hopes to get out of the ad campaign, Clifford responded by saying he wants to "educate people."
"Simply to open their eyes and let them see what has happened on the map," he said.
Efune is calling for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to take the ads down. However, the MTA said it doesn't restrict ads on the basis of viewpoint and while it doesn't endorse the ad, the posters will remain up.
The Anti-Defamation League, for its part, called the ads "Deliberately misleading, biased and fundamentally anti-Israel."
Originally posted by Swills
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
I guess sometimes the truth is anti-Semitic?
I agree 100% with your thread and may go down to the subways myself to check out these new ads and watch peoples reactions. Good find and post