M.T.A. Violated First Amendment Rights of Pro-Israel Group, Judge Says By BENJAMIN WEISER Published: July 20, 2012 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ E-MAIL SHARE PRINT REPRINTS A federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Friday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority violated the First Amendment rights of a pro-Israel advocacy group when it rejected advertisements the group wanted to place on city buses because the agency said the ads contained demeaning language. Enlarge This Image An ad from the American Freedom Defense Initiative that was rejected by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Connect with NYTMetro Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook for news and conversation. The group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, had wanted to place text-only advertisements that said, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.” Then, between two Stars of David, the advertisement said:....... “Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
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Will Israel succeed in its efforts to eradicate Islam and Christianity?
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The funniest part of this ad is suggesting that Israel is civilized. A people who actually believes that God gave them some special gift that they must preserve at any cost. A gift that time and time again has been taken away from them. Yet they continue to believe that God gave them that gift.
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Originally Posted by ksazma:
The funniest part of this ad is suggesting that Israel is civilized. A people who actually believes that God gave them some special gift that they must preserve at any cost. A gift that time and time again has been taken away from them. Yet they continue to believe that God gave them that gift.
The official story is that God gave Palestine to the Israelis and that the Palestinians carried out a holocaust to steal it. So now the Israelis are taking revenge.
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