Hooray for Clear Channel Outdoor Seattle and their decision not to sell space on their outdoor billboards to a radical pro-islamic terror group that wanted to advertise a website and messages that would accuse Israel of war crimes and genocide.
I'm sure that Clear Channel made their decision based on legal frameworks and such but the message needs to come from all of America that these groups like The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) simply won't be tolerated. I, for one, am sick and damn tired of a small band of misfits who sympathize with a people in Palestine who murder three month old babies in their sleep and fire rockets into school buses.
From the article at Israel National News:
An anti-Israel group called The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) has failed in a bid to run a billboard campaign promoting a website that accuses Israel of war crimes, "ethnic cleansing" and apartheid.
The communications firm that owns the billboards, Clear Channel Outdoor Seattle, decided to reject the advertisements after they had been on display for one week.
The advertisements showed an Arab boy behind a fence with a caption that reads, “Equal rights for Palestinians -- Stop funding the Israeli military.” They also contained the Internet address of a website that accuses Israel of "war crimes" against Arabs, of "ethnic cleansing" and of "apartheid." The website also claims the Jewish state is responsible for "Targeting, killing, and collectively punishing non-combatant men, women and children."
Olivia Lippens, president of Clear Channel Outdoor Seattle, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications, explained the decision. "All messages we post, and any websites they promote, adhere to community standards and are not offensive towards any business, group or individual," she said.
What needs to happen in America is that these groups like "SeaMAC" need to feel the ire of the American people - they need to be singled out and humiliated on a daily basis. When these clowns show up for one of their anti-Israel demonstrations, I need to be their with a photo on a sign of the slaughtered Fogel family shouting "This what your Palestinian state will bring!" We all need to stand up for Israel and stop these terrorist appeasers from gaining any traction. These are simply Leftists who will do anything to further their cause - they wish chaos upon our land...and they see an American break with Israel as the perfect storm scenario for the eventual destruction of every American value that we hold so high.
I think Clear Channel Outdoor Seattle was smart enough to know that there would have been hell on earth for them to pay if they had allowed these advertisements to go up.
Anti-Israel Billboards Nixed in Seattle
An anti-Israel group called The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) has failed in a bid to run a billboard campaign promoting a website that accuses Israel of war crimes, "ethnic cleansing" and apartheid.
The communications firm that owns the billboards, Clear Channel Outdoor Seattle, decided to reject the advertisements after they had been on display for one week.
The advertisements showed an Arab boy behind a fence with a caption that reads, “Equal rights for Palestinians -- Stop funding the Israeli military.” They also contained the Internet address of a website that accuses Israel of "war crimes" against Arabs, of "ethnic cleansing" and of "apartheid." The website also claims the Jewish state is responsible for "Targeting, killing, and collectively punishing non-combatant men, women and children."
Olivia Lippens, president of Clear Channel Outdoor Seattle, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications, explained the decision. "All messages we post, and any websites they promote, adhere to community standards and are not offensive towards any business, group or individual," she said.
"Upon further review, it became evident that a campaign sponsored by stop30billion-seattle.org promoted a website that is not in keeping with those standards," she added, noting that her company had received complaints about the signs.
Rod Such, a volunteer with SeaMAC, used the ban to accuse pro-Israel groups of unjustly censoring an innocent ad. In a sympathetic press report, he was quoted as saying that “even a call for equal rights for Palestinians is a message that the Israel Lobby in this country cannot tolerate.”
He failed to mention the content of the website promoted by the billboards, which is much more strident than the text on the billboards.
Ed Mast, another SeaMAC volunteer said he was “very disturbed that those individuals and groups that oppose equal rights and human rights for Palestinians have such power over both public and private media organizations.”
The cancellation is the second letdown for SeaMAC in six months. In December, King County canceled a SeaMAC advertisement campaign that had been scheduled to run on a dozen Seattle metro buses. The ads said: "Israeli war crimes: Your tax dollars at work."
Pro-Israel grassroots groups went into action against that campaign and succeeded in having it canceled.
In response, SeaMac and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the county for allegedly violating their First Amendment rights. The suit was rejected February by a federal judge in Seattle, who ruled that the space for ads on buses is a “limited” public forum and therefore the First Amendment is irrelevant to it.
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