Pamela Geller, WND Column: Telling the truth in Seattle

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My Monday column is up at WND:

DEFENDING THE WEST

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Telling the truth in Seattle

Exclusive: Pamela Geller exposes media disinformation, knee-jerk outrage

There is another vicious lie of an ad campaign going up in Seattle.
Once again the Jew-haters are exposing themselves for the sick and
depraved lot they are. And once again, my organization, the American
Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, is countering the lies with the
truth.

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A vicious, anti-Israel group is running an ad that reads: “Equal
Rights for Palestinians: The Way to Peace.” This ad is a lie. In
Israel’s Declaration of Independence, the founders determined that their
nation would be a Jewish state that offers equal rights to its Arab
citizens. Arab and Muslim Israelis can study in Hebrew language schools
if they wish. They can live in Israeli towns. Arab Israelis have full
political and civil rights in Israel. There are Arab Muslim Israelis
serving in the Knesset.

If the Palestinians were to come under Israeli sovereignty, they
would also have equal rights with Israelis – and make up but a third of
the population. Both Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and
U.S. favorite Salam Fayyad have gone on record saying that no Jews will
be allowed to live in Palestine, and that all Jewish communities in
Judea and Samaria and Jewish neighborhoods built in post-1967 Jerusalem
will have to be emptied out before they will accept their state.

They are, in other words, demanding a judenrein state.

Meanwhile, the Muslim minority in Israel identifies with active enemies of its state, such as the terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah. The
actual “way to peace” is for these jihad terror groups and those who
support them to recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist and to
expunge the Quran and Hadith of the violent, Jew-hating texts that
exhort Muslims to commit genocide.

You see no such equality for Jews (or Christians or non-Muslims)
under the Shariah in Muslim countries. There are no equal rights for
women or religious minorities in Gaza or in any country where the
Shariah is the rule of law.

And so I submitted our counter ad to Seattle’s King County Metro
Transit. It reads: “The Palestinian Authority Is Calling For A Jew-Free
State: Equal Rights For Jews.” After dragging its feet for several
weeks, King County Metro Transit at long last agreed to run our
pro-Israel advertisement on its public transportation buses – after
facing the threat of legal action.

Our ads finally went up Thursday in Seattle. And immediately the
smears and disinformation from the enemedia began. A Fox News report
never bothered to mention the anti-Jewish ads that prompted our
pro-Israel response campaign. Neither did any of the other media
coverage.

Even worse, Fox News interviewed the sponsor of the anti-Semitic ads,
Ed Mast – and no one else. I think that it is reprehensible that Fox
News would interview a notorious Jew-hater for the report but never
contacted us for substantiation or comment. It let the lies stand
unchallenged. I’d expect that from MSNBC or CNN, but now we see that Fox
News is little (if any) better.

ABC News Seattle, however, was even worse (as hard as that may be to believe). Its “reporter,” Matt Markovich, got everything wrong.
Everything. They got our name wrong, calling us the “American
Federation Defense Initiative” and identifying us as an “East Coast
Jewish activist organization.” In reality, we are a human rights group
dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and individual
rights. Matt Markovich says at the tail end of this piece that he tried
to contact us. Everyone else managed to find us. Are ABC reporters new
to this? Clearly, Matt wasn’t trying terribly hard. The gist of
Markovich’s story (and that’s what it is, a fiction) is that our ad ran
while the vicious anti-Jewish group SEAMAC’s did not. This is just plain
wrong. Our ad is a response to their ad currently running. Nuts, right?

The knee-jerk outrage in the face of the truth is comical. The
Seattle transit authorities were extremely reluctant to run my ad. I had
to provide numerous sources showing that the Palestinians had indeed
called for a Jew-free state. Abbas has called for it, as has Fayyad.
Of course, Ed Mast was never made to provide any documentation for the
claims in his Jew-hating ad. As for the Jew-hater Mast’s bogus
contention that our ads are misleading, that is complete projection. The
fact is that religious minorities do not have equal rights under
Islamic law, and Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

The Seattle Times article
was just as one-sided. Reporter Keith Ervin asked for the documentation
as well, but then didn’t use any of it in his article. He quoted Mast
calling my organization a “hate group” but didn’t print my response:
“This is a familiar libel that leftists and Islamic supremacists resort
to in order to discredit their opponents and turn people of good will
away from their message. Our organization is dedicated to the freedom of
speech, the freedom of conscience and equality of rights of all people
under the law. They smear us as ‘hateful’ because they cannot refute
what we say.”

The smear coverage makes it clear how true my words really are. But the ads are up. We are striking a blow for truth in Seattle.

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DAVID GOLDBERG
DAVID GOLDBERG
10 years ago

YOU ARE LYING AND SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION. HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?

canadianmohamhater
canadianmohamhater
10 years ago

I love these dead end posts from muslims…pathetic losers when it comes to charity of man.

AmericanPatriot
AmericanPatriot
10 years ago

I live here in Seattle. THANK YOU FOR STANDING up to the critics, to the hateful Muslim community and all practitioners of Islam who only strive for world domination. I LOVE SEEING THESE ADS when I walk to work every morning!

J. Irvin
J. Irvin
10 years ago

If the Jews of this country don’t support Israel..as so many secular Jews do not, what does that say to Israel?
It’s their God-given homeland!

Pam K
Pam K
10 years ago

There used to be a law affecting all newspapers and TV news, requiring equal time for opposing positions. Can’t we lobby to get that law reinstated? I forget what it was called…..

David
David
10 years ago

Just another story that reminds me of ‘Hating Breitbart’ and the wrong-headed agenda of the left

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