VICTORY! Seattle Transit Caves, AFDI Pro-Israel ads to run citywide

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We won! I love these ads.

"Seattle Area Transit Authority to Display Pro-Israel Advertisement after Legal Action Threatened" AFLC, July 1, 2013

In
a victory for free speech, the King County Metro Transit (“Metro”)
announced today that it has agreed to run a pro-Israel advertisement on
its public transportation vehicles after facing the threat of legal
action from the advertisement’s sponsors.  Metro had repeatedly denied
the advertisement until the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC)
threatened to sue the agency on behalf of the advertisement’s sponsors,
the Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI), and its executive directors,
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.  The proposed advertisement states,
“The Palestinian Authority Is Calling For A Jew-Free State.  Equal
Rights for Jews.”

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The
proposed advertisement is a direct response to an
anti-Israel/pro-Palestine advertisement that Metro did not object to
running on its public vehicles.  That advertisement states, “Equal
Rights for Palestinians.  The Way to Peace.”

David
Yerushalmi, Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, commented: “Time and
again, government transit agencies censor FDI’s advertisements to
placate the anti-Israel, pro-sharia crowd, whose agenda is exposed when
our clients use public platforms to break through political correctness
to highlight the important issues concerning Israel and the rapid rise
of sharia-adherent Islam.” 

Yerushalmi
continued: “And time again, we have to push back against these
unconstitutional restrictions on our clients’ free speech.  However,
government agencies, after witnessing our successful challenges in New
York and Washington, D.C., are starting to understand the costs of
violating the Constitution, whether through losing in litigation or by
the negative exposure of their actions.”

Robert
Muise, Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, added: “There was simply
no legal basis for Metro to reject our clients’ proposed advertisement
in the first instance.  Indeed, by rejecting the advertisement, Metro
was engaging in viewpoint discrimination, which is an egregious form of
content discrimination that is prohibited by the First Amendment in all
forums.”

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Marta
Marta
10 years ago

OMG Pamela! You and your team are fighting on so many fronts! I admire your stamina and moral fortitude. May God bless and protect you! You and Robert must be the object of so much hate, that we should be showering you with blessings every day in order to compensate against evil and nastiness …
Oh! Congrats on this new triumph!!!

Larry S.
Larry S.
10 years ago

You can’t put an extensive message on a poster, but I’m sure the CAIR types made the point that the P-A (on paper) accepts the concept of a two-state solution. Their state would be judenrein whereas Israel- within the “Auschwitz borders”- would include Jews.

BUTSeriously
BUTSeriously
10 years ago

What we don’t see but what we should see long ago & urgently:
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR COPTICS
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR LEBANESE CHRISTIANS
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR BAHAI
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR INDIANS WITH WORKING CONTRACTS IN ISLAMIC STATES
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ISRAELIS
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ZIONISTS.

Take It back
Take It back
10 years ago

Thank you Jesus for Blessing me so that I can be a continued Blessing to the nation of Israel & to Ms Geller and her team… All Glory to The God of Abraham, Shalom

American Defense League
American Defense League
10 years ago

The truth will win, now about that peach.

Rudy Grant from Canada
Rudy Grant from Canada
10 years ago

Congratulations Pam. I knew when I heard you speak in Toronto you were the kind of person that gets things done. As I travel around North America visiting different cities I visit my fellow atheists and inform them of Islam.
You see, I deal with Muslims day to day and know that what the media calls extreme is actually the norm. Not murder, but definitely the implementation of Sharia and hate of Jews is what is discussed at the mosque and around the dinner table.
I am still amazed how unaware atheists are. Usually better educated, atheists unfortunately are usually more liberal which saddles them with misconceptions about the religion of peace
Although you may not consider atheists your ally, I think everyone opposed to the Islamization of North America should be considered an ally.
I promote you and Robert Spencer to my fellow atheists at every opportunity and I think I have opened some eyes and minds.
Let’s keep the battle going.

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
10 years ago

Brilliant! This is the way to defeat Islam. The truth is the Achilles heel of Islam. And they know it.

Jack Hamilton
Jack Hamilton
10 years ago

Pam
You are winning even with out the approval of bloviating Bill O’Really, intentional misspelling. When are you coming back to Gatlinburg to speak we love you?

Mark
Mark
10 years ago

Bravo Pamela. G-d bless you.

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