NEW YORK - A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization has vowed to fight against the advertising group Clear Channel's inconsistent rejection of its pro-Israel advertisements in Seattle after accepting ads from an anti-Israel hate group. The antisemitic group, Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, is running ads that read, "Equal Rights for Palestinians: Stop funding the Israeli military." Seattle Metro had initially rejected these ads, but then reversed itself and accepted the ads. American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) Executive Director Pamela Geller then submitted ads to Clear Channel in Seattle depicting Muslim/Nazi collaboration during World War II, with the caption, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man." Another depicted various atrocities of the jihad terrorist group Hamas, with the caption, "One billion dollars to Hamas - your tax dollars at work." However, after AFDI submitted its pro-Israel human rights ad to Clear Channel, the president of Clear Channel informed Geller that AFDI's ad had been "rejected due to community standards." Dave Duffy, Senior Account Executivefor Clear Channel Outdoor - Seattle, justified Clear Channel's decision in an email to Geller: "The issue with the design was both the tone in the ad, along with the photos.The political ad currently on the street is not an incitement to violence against the Jewish people, and any ad depicting violence towards any group or individual would rightly be rejected.For that same reason, copy that describes another group or individual negatively, or shows any imagery that is violent, either explicit or implied would be rejected." Full Story>>
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