London – Israeli Tourism Posters Removed from Subways after 336 Complaints

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    London – The Israel Government Tourist Office (IGTO) will remove a series of posters at London Underground subway stations after the Advertising Standards Authority received 336 complaints.

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    The posters, part of the IGTO’s Think.Israel campaign, show Gaza and the West Bank within the borders of Israel, the occupied territories in blue while the remainder of the map is yellow.

    The IGTO made the decision to pull the posters from the sites after both the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Dan Judelson of Jews for Justice for Palestinians complained about the map for being misleading and unnecessarily political.

    The posters feature on 108 sites across the London Underground network with a further 42 that had been due to go up.

    The IGTO is considering producing a new poster, without the map, to replace the existing one.

    The ASA has yet to make a ruling on the posters, but is currently investigating the complaints and expects to have an adjudication in the next few weeks.


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    Mottel
    Mottel
    14 years ago

    What to do now with the hundreds of unwanted posters? An eco-friendly way to dispose of them with no damage to the environment would be to shove them up the ***es of that judelson whiner and all the traitorous, holier-than-thou members of his ‘jews for palestinian justice’ complainers.
    At least then will they have a legitimate reason to go marching and parading

    frum zionist
    frum zionist
    14 years ago

    Ooh, Mottel! I like the way you think !! :))

    PMO
    PMO
    14 years ago

    I can respect that people have differing views on the Palestinian issue. I never expect everyone to agree with my opinions, and I respect that their are many innocent Palestinians caught in the middle of violent terrorists. However, their want to fight something so trivial forces me completely dismiss these fools as hateful troublemakers and nothing more. These people are clearly out to stir the pot of racism by making something out of nothing. From my standpoint, making a mountain out of a molehill just dilutes their cause.

    I compare them to people like Al Sharpton. If the “race issues” were gone tomorrow, what would he do with his life? He has nothing else. He has never helped anyone. He just gets paid to cause trouble and keep the phony race-war alive. I guess if peace were to come in E”Y, these groups would be out of business too. Organized groups always have people at the top making good money off the cause. They will continue to fan flames in order to keep the money rolling in.

    This “Jews for Justice for Palestinians” are just trying to make a bigger name for themselves. There is no issue here and SHAME on the British government for taking these posters down. Like it or not, the entire west bank and Gaza are part of Israel right now. Whether or not that changes in the future will be up to those in power and H”.

    vice versa
    vice versa
    14 years ago

    We can do the same by looking out for posters and advertisement that preach Islamist Faith and or tourism to a Middle East Country

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Who wants to go to London? Two can play at the same game!! Sometimes when we go to Israel we stop in Europe, we don’t have to stop in London!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    How many of the “complaints” were filed by Muslims residing in the U.K.? Much of the current anti- semitic unrest is caused by the zillions of Islamists flooding every western country agitating the naive and enjoying a heroes status.

    Avrohom Abba
    Avrohom Abba
    14 years ago

    The community in England should call in complaints when the next “Dubai” posters go up to advertise flying down there. Guess who made all the calls to complain about the Israeli ad? I’ll bet most of those complaints were not from Christians and Jews.

    Shlomo
    Shlomo
    14 years ago

    But the Arab flags and maps that don’t show Israel are OK? Justice is a one way street to them…and they all drive on the far left.