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King County Executive Prevents "Israeli War Crimes" bus ads from appearingSeattle Mideast Awareness Campaign Press Release - 24 December 2010The upcoming Metro bus ad campaign by Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has been cancelled by the King County Executive. The Campaign will hold a outdoor press conference at noon Friday in front of the King County Administration Bldg. The bus ads, with the message “ISRAELI WAR CRIMES: Your Tax Dollars At Work” had been approved and accepted by King County officials several weeks before. The Seattle Mideast Awareness Coalition had signed a contract, paid the complete amount – over $3000 – and the ads themselves had been printed and delivered to Metro Transit for affixing to 12 buses.  Israeli War Crimes Advert on side of bus (King 5 News depiction) Several groups purporting to represent the Jewish community mounted a campaign to prevent King County from putting up the ads. Their campaign included overwhelming Metro and King County phone lines and email boxes, raising the threat of potential violence against both community members and buses themselves, and making defamatory claims about the ads and the advertisers. King County Executive Dow Constantine announced that the ad would not “be accepted” late in the afternoon on Thursday, citing potential disruptions and safety hazards to the Metro system. “The ad itself is not disrupting Metro Transit operation and services,” says Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign member Edward Mast. “The ad is not causing a public safety hazard. Those who want the ad silenced mounted a campaign to disrupt Metro and generate threats. It’s disturbing that King County has given in to those who want to stop free speech with intimidation tactics.” Local human rights activist and Jewish-American Peter Lippman said, “The State of Israel is not the same as the Jewish people, and Israel should be subject to criticism like any other state. These groups that insist on suppressing free speech about Israel do not represent many, many Jews in this country.” Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign maintains that the ad slogan contains facts, not rhetoric, and that war crimes by Israel have been widely documented. After Israel’s three-week military offensive against the captive population of Gaza in 2008-9, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 Palestinians -- most of them non-combatants and more than 300 of them children -- a formal inquiry by the United Nations found grounds for a criminal investigation into war crimes by Israel. The UN report concluded that Israel’s assault was not in self-defense, but was “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population”. In a report published on July 2, 2009, Amnesty International found evidence that Israeli soldiers used Palestinian civilians as human shields. Israeli soldiers have testified publicly to other human rights violations. Several experts have made themselves available for press contact. For more information about Israel/Palestine, human rights, war crimes and international law, please contact: STEPHEN ZUNES PHYLLIS BENNIS For information about US funding of Israel, contact: JOSH REUBNER Local residents who have recently visited Israel, the West Bank or Gaza: MARNY (KIT) KITTREDGE LINDA FRANK CINDY CORRIE/CRAIG CORRIE For information about boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns: NADA ELIA For information about Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign ROD SUCH CARLA CURIO www.stop30billion-Seattle.org, info@stop30billion-Seattle.org 
Source: http://www.stop30billion-seattle.org/press.htm   Also Of InterestPage URL: http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10480
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