A group of Seattle residents have published an ad complaining that their tax dollars are being spent on Israeli “war crimes”, the local Komo News reported Wednesday. The ad has already sparked controversy in the city.
The report says the ‘Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign’ paid $1,800 to the local Metro bus company in order to get the ad featured on the sides of buses.
The ad, which says “Israeli war crimes: Your tax dollars at work”, depicts a family standing next to a destroyed house in Gaza. It is scheduled to appear on the second anniversary of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, which falls on December 27.
But local Councilman Peter von Reichbauer says his office has been fielding numerous complaint calls.
“It is an example of an attack on the state of Israel, using a picture that is designed to inflame people’s feelings toward the state of Israel and by nature, against Jewish Americans,” Komo quoted him as saying.
But Ed Mast, a member of the Seattle pro-Palestinian group, explained that “criticizing the actions of a nation state is not criticizing a whole people”.
“We don’t find the message anti-Israel or anti-US, we are calling for equal rights,” the report quoted him as saying.
The Jewish community in the city was not rushing to respond. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Wendy Rosen, of the American Jewish Committee, expressed concern at the move but that the AJC had decided that complaining against the ad would only drum up more publicity.
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what about the American war crimes?! Or is this a cover up?
i suppose its better to send americas hard earned dollars to the the plo so they target more people, buildings, planes and buses instead of feeding and educating their people!
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!
David Horowitz, who is a very famous conservative activist, is trying to fundraise thousands of dollars to make counterads in seattle, saying “Palestinian war crimes, your tax dollars at work” or something around those lines. Go to his website, frontpagemag.com and make a donation if you want to really fight back
Our biggest Tzadikim in our history had also stood up for the Jews, but today people are afraid! We should go put on busses what brutal people are these extreme muslims, and the acts they do to get their way…. Sitting in the shtetal and playing dead to these issues do not help any of us! To save Israel is to save the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While the pro palestinian groups spend their money on propaganda, the pro Israel groups spend their money on the welfare of Israel’s citizens. With priorities like this, no wonder so many palestinians live in poverty…
Many US government grants are for Arab/Palestinian developments, out of our country. These are US funds given away to promote financial backing for Obama’s real freinds!This should be made aware of and demonstrated against by the citizens of America.
we have no choice but to place counter ads showing why we went into Gaza .
It has been elasticized every which way, freedom of speech includes freedom of expression even if it is hatred, bigotry, etc. now i wonder if it said Anti Black bla bla, it would be quite a nasty scene. however, we Jews do nothing about it, so it becomes la di da. we are so used to this persecution thing! Well, I for one have had quite enough. I will not turn a blind eye i will not be leave it to someone else i will not allow this!!!! but what the heck do you do about it?? yikes, this is… Read more »
how can they allow such a thing in Seattle. If I lived there I would rip them off