Defamatory ADL Reverses Itself on AFDI Ads, But Continues Its “Racist” Attacks

The uber-left islamophiliac Guardian fails in its coverage of our latest ad campaign. They get much wrong. No surprise there.

The notorious ADL was asked to comment — the ADL, which has condemned my ads in the past (along with Joan Rivers, David Yerushalmi and Israel at various times). Evan Bernstein, the regional director of the ADL in New York, said: “Pamela Geller frequently crosses the line into racism when she criticizes Islam. In this particular case with the ads Screen Shot 2014-09-20 at 2.43.45 PMon New York City buses, it does not appear that she has done so.”

This illustrates how nonsensical and absurd they are. The ADL widely condemned the  Islamic Jew-hatred ad and the savage ad when they ran in the past- but both are part of this new campaign. Huh? So it’s OK now? Why, what changed? Except a decrease in donations because of their anti-Jewish work. Many of their positions mirror that of the Hamas-group CAIR and other Islamic supremacists. The rare times the media cites ADL is to smear people like myself.

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So the ADL has reversed its position, but they can’t bring themselves to say it. The ADL knows the enemedia won’t check, as long as they are bashing me.  They call me “racist.” What race, Mr. Bernstein?

Further down in the article, the Guardian alleges that Mona Eltahawy was charged with “criminal mischief” for “spray-painting over” our savage posters. Wrong — that is only partially true. She was arrested for physically attacking Pamela Hall, SIOA’s NY Director,  who stood in front of the ad in order to protect it.

More wrong? Yes. The MTA rejected one ad back on August 25, which I am now grateful for. Because I worked on new ads that are better — the “moderate” ad  and the “Hamas is ISIS” ad. And we are filing a lawsuit were just waiting for the documentation under a FOIL request, which we just received this week. They would know that if they had asked me. The Guardian would sooner take the gaspipe than contact me for comment.

It bears noting that the notoriously leftist islamophliac Guardian was one of the only ones not to run the actual ads. They ran a photo of a bus and an elderly lady.  They won’t run our ads — they know people would agree with us. But let me say this: the marked difference between this latest media fit over our ads and the last one(s), is the overwhelming support we have received from the people. Check out the comments sections — even at leftwing publications. The people stand with freedom and truth.

“Anti-Islam ad campaign to run on New York City buses and subways,” Nicky Woolf, The Guardian, September 20, 2014

Blogger paid $100,000 to place ads, one of which was rejected by MTA on grounds it could ‘incite or provoke violence’

Controversial blogger and activist Pamela Geller has paid $100,000 to place advertisements on New York City buses and in subway stations that feature anti-Islamic messages and images including one of James Foley, the American journalist beheaded by Isis in August.

The campaign, which is being funded by Geller’s advocacy group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AMDI), features six posters including the one that features Foley. All the posters carry messages critical of Islam. One features a picture of Adolf Hitler.

This is not the first time Geller’s organisation has used posters on New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority’s ad space to court controversy. In 2012, her organisation paid for posters to appear in ten New York subway stations.

This time around the posters, which include some Geller used in 2012 and some new designs, will be only in two subway stations, but will also appear on a hundred MTA buses. They are scheduled to appear on 29 September.

In 2012, after the MTA at first did not allow Geller to buy advertising space, a court ruled that the posters were “political” in nature, and therefore covered by the First Amendment. “We review every viewpoint ad,” said Kevin Ortiz, deputy director of external communications at the MTA “but a series of court rulings have made clear that our hands are largely tied.”

Mona Eltahawy, the Egyptian-American activist and writer, was charged with “criminal mischief” after spray-painting over the posters. Four other people were also reportedly arrested for defacing the posters with stickers.

Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab-American Association of New York said that she fully respected Geller’s right to exercise her free speech, but pointed to the fact that anti-Muslim hate crimes are up 143% since last year, according to figures released on Thursday by the NYPD’s hate crimes task force. Sarsour was herself the target of a hate crime this September, after a man chased and threatened to behead her in New York.

“The question here is what could be the consequences of these ads going up at a time like this,” Sarsour said. “We have ignorant people walking around who are waiting to act on their hatred for Muslims. We don’t need ads across New York City that try to link Islam and Isis.”

Since the controversy surrounding Geller’s last poster campaign, the MTA has revised its standards regarding advertising. Now, any ad that contains a political viewpoint must display the words “this is a paid advertisement sponsored by [sponsor]. The display of this advertisement does not imply MTA’s endorsement of any views expressed.”

Evan Bernstein, the regional director of the ADL in New York said: “Pamela Geller frequently crosses the line into racism when she criticizes Islam. In this particular case with the ads on New York City buses, it does not appear that she has done so.”

The MTA announced on Friday that a fifth poster, also submitted by Geller’s organisation, was rejected by their safety and security director because they feared it had the potential to “imminently incite or provoke violence,” according to a statement. Under the new rules put in place after Geller’s 2012 campaign, that is sufficient grounds for the MTA to refuse to run an ad.

Adam Lisberg, the head spokesperson for the MTA, denied that any value judgments were involved. “We make these decisions in a content-neutral way,” he told the Guardian. “We have narrowly drafted our advertising standards because of the First Amendment considerations involved.

He said the MTA was not yet aware of a legal challenge from Geller.

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