The controversy over the Palestinian maps ads is a story with legs. And ad-buyer Henry Clifford’s wish may come true: Americans will learn about the dispossession of Palestinians, history suppressed for decades in this country. NY Daily News report from Celeste Katz:
Assemblymember Robert Castelli [of Westchester County] wrote a letter today to the MTA Metro-North railroad president urging for the removal of a billboard about Israel and Palestine, saying members of the Jewish community were offended by the anti-Israel message and that the advertisement was “more inflammatory than promoting peace.”…
Castelli said he was contacted by “a multitude” of Jewish organizations in his district that were offended by the billboard. Castelli said he consulted those complaints, as well as a letter from The Anti-Defamation League, before deciding to draft the letter to Metro-North President Howard Permut. The Anti-Defamation League cited COPIP as an anti-Israel group. It said the billboards failed to reflect key facts and that the issue is “extremely complex and cannot be summarized in a series of four maps.”
Henry Clifford, the chairman of COPIP, said there isn’t room on the billboards for the entirety of the issue, but that everything on the advertisement is an “accurate, historical, geographical portrayal.”
Is there a Kickstart funding project in the making?
Could the brave Mr. Clifford be backed up with enough money to replicate his success elsewhere. Like Washington?
No need to have a marketing group analyze the effectiveness of this ad campaign. I think we know the answer. Thank you Henry Clifford.
“Offended” is not the right word.
“Outraged” that the truth is laid bare for all to see.
The naked truth is an emormous embarrassment.
I’m waiting for Dov Hikind to “announce his presence with authority”
Breaking news:
ADL complains about free T-shirt with slogan: “Israel Is Home of All Jews & Has Right 2 Self-Govern.” It said the T-shirts failed to reflect key facts and that the issue is “extremely complex and cannot be summarized on a T-shirt, even if both sides of it were used. An ADL spokesman further explained, ‘Those T-shirts are an offense to all Palestinians and to all the humanitarians in the world–besides, Nuremberg law & Geneva progeny were purchased at the price of two world wars and brought an end to the notion that a sovereign state could do whatever it wants at the expense of other states or groups.”