Community | December 22, 2010 | 160 comments

'Israeli war crimes-Your tax dollars at work' signs being displayed on Seattle buses

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Good job to this activist group! And as usual, Israel's loudest American mouthpiece, the Jewish run-Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is upset at Americans exercising their right to free speech.

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A group calling itself the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has paid King County $1,794 so that 12 buses will carry that message around town, starting two days after Christmas. That's December 27: the two-year anniversary of Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Ed Mast, a Seattle man who is a spokesperson for the group, says it’s not meant to be an anti-Israel message, but a message designed to generate discussion and awareness.

At the Pacific Northwest office of the Anti-Defamation League, the ad campaign is seen quite a bit differently.

"We're dismayed," says Community Director Hilary Bernstein, who calls the bus-born advertisement grotesquely one-sided. "Citizens young and old will be seeing this sort of propaganda, this very one-sided distortion. It's unfortunate."
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