Detroit – Anti-Israel Billboard Causing Controversy

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    (Deiryassin.org)Detroit – A billboard in that reads “America First Not Israel” is causing controversy and some are accusing its message of being anti-Semitic.

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    The large sign, placed on 8 Mile Road in Detroit, says that it was “Paid for by Deir Yassin Remembered,” a New-York-based organization that has been posting similar signs throughout the country. Although the metro-Detroit area has one of the largest Arab populations outside the Middle East, as well as a sizable Jewish community, the sign was placed in a part of the city that is neither predominantly Jewish nor Muslim.

    In an interview with Detroit’s WXYZ Fox News affiliate, the Anti-Defamation League’s Heidi Budaj said that the ad and its choice of location is trying to “drive a wedge between the American people and the state of Israel.”

    “This particular sign goes a step further and raises an old anti-Semitic canard of dual loyalty, implying that Jews are not loyal to the country in which they live,” Budaj said. “Make no mistake that while many of the Jewish people in the United States support the state of Israel as a Jewish state, we are loyal Americans.”

    The website of Deir Yassin Remembered, Inc. lists its mailing address dually under the name of Daniel McGowan, an extreme environmental activist who has served time in prison for “eco-terrorism.”

    The battle of Deir Yassin, a village on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, was one of the most controversial of the War of Independence. It took place in April 1948, one month before the State of Israel was declared. There have been charges that units of the Etzel (Irgun) and Lehi (Stern Group) undergrounds massacred dozens of Palestinian civilians in the village and forced the survivors to flee.

    Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem


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    Benjey
    Benjey
    8 years ago

    There is a reason why the biggest FBI headquarters is located in Dearborn Michigan.

    BogusMilsky
    BogusMilsky
    8 years ago

    Detroit is a city ruined by Unions, Liberal Democrats , corrupt black leaders and muslins……….Nobody with a half a brain is in Detroit and nobody is reading that sign ……..Why give them any attention ?

    8 years ago

    If you allow Pameilla Geller why can’t you allow these signs?

    And frankly all it says is, bear in mind that our interest comes first. From a secular point of view doesn’t charity begin at home?

    albroker
    albroker
    8 years ago

    Muslims what can I say, yet the NYC city council Jewish caucus (which incldues Greenfield and Deutsch) wrote a letter to Obama telling him to INCREASE the number of Muslim “refugees” into the U.S