Toronto, Canada – Despite the fact that a similar series previously adorned Vancouver subway trains and buses over the summer, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is refusing to run an anti-Israel ad campaign, calling it “inaccurate and misleading.”
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JTA (http://bit.ly/1cbHo8Y) reports that ad campaign, designed by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, is essentially a clone to previous campaigns that have been submitted to other Canadian transit systems, as well as in U.S. cities, including New York City, Washington, D.C., Denver and Los Angeles.
The series is a new take on the “Disappearing Palestine” theme, and features four maps depicting a shrinking Palestine territory over time.
Brad Ross of the TTC said lawyers for the TTC—after being unable to find any international legal finding with regard to actual loss of land by Palestine—determined that statements made in the ads, most notably that Israeli policy is “illegal under international law,” are either “inaccurate or misleading.”
Frank Dimant, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, said “We congratulate the TTC for making the right decision in rejecting the ads. They carefully reviewed their own rules and put the ad into historical context to find that it was misleading and inaccurate and could lead to hatred or violence against supporters of Israel and the Jewish community in particular.”
toronto eh? my kind of town … the best
kol hakavod!
Toronto the Good!
I hope you do not upset when they refuse an anti Muslim ad
and their prime minister has his head screwed on straight unlike our….