We’ve reported on Henry Clifford’s inspired ad campaign, which features four maps depicting the shriveling of Palestinian lands over the last century. A Jewish newspaper says the ads are “anti-Semitic and libelous.” The Chappaqua Daily Voice is holding an online poll asking readers whether the maps ads should be taken down at the Chappaqua station. That paper is evidently a bastion of free speech. The story features some anti-ads voices. Apparently the situation in that foreign country is just too complicated to allow someone in the U.S. to reduce it to an ad, I guess:
Assembly member Robert Castelli (R, C – Goldens Bridge) was quick to call the billboard “anti-Israeli” and asked Metro-North President Howard Permut to remove it immediately.
“I am a strong supporter of the First Amendment right of free speech in the Constitution, and certainly a proponent that the people of Israel and Palestine should live in harmony together,” Castelli said. “However, the subliminal message that this particular billboard carries is an anti-Israeli message that I believe has just the opposite effect of creating peace and harmony between the Israeli and Palestinian people.”
…“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely complex and cannot be summarized in a series of four maps,” said Ron Meier, ADL New York Regional Director in a statement.
We’re at the stage of the fairytale where the child has said, “but he doesn’t have any clothes on,” those close by have heard and laughed, and it is now being repeated throughout the crowd, as the emperor rather nervously continues to march in the parade, pretending not to hear. The tailors who presented the magic cloth are explaining that the magic is too powerful for a mere child to understand, while secretly packing their bags.
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely complex and cannot be summarized in a series of four maps” — Ron Meier, ADL, NY.
As Adam made clear a couple of days ago it can even be summerized in ONE map:
https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2012/07/what-israeli-settlement-bus-routes-teach-us-about-the-occupation.html
the conflict can be summed up in that single image of a series of four maps – that’s why it is such a powerful image and there is nothing “subliminal” about it – it is an overt, energetically conscious account
Israel claims to be a bastion of Western democratic values, but most of us have witnessed hundreds of incidents in which pro-Israel activists have tried to shut down free speech and apply heavy-handed censorship tactics in American politics.
The truth is, most pro-Israel activists simply can’t handle free, open and rational debate. They rely heavily on verbal abuse, personal attacks, intimidation, threats (even death threats) and outright censorship to promote indefensible policies.
For how much longer will be they able to go on like this before they are done in by their own self-contradictions and their entire edifice collapses?
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