Toronto Transit Commission rejects anti-Israel ads as 'inaccurate and misleading'
Proposed by the Montreal-based Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, the ads were similar to the “Disappearing Palestine” ad that ran this summer in Vancouver’s transit system. The Vancouver ad showed four maps, spanning from 1946 to 2012, that suggested Israel was taking over Palestinian land.
The CJPME ads claimed that Palestinian “loss of land” has been “unfair” and “illegal under international law.”
“Our legal opinion,” Ross said, “is that there has never been a finding by any international court or tribunal with respect to the illegality of loss of land, and by making that statement, it potentially could cause discrimination or advocate hate towards a specified group, in this case Israelis and/or the Jewish people.”
Ross said the four ads contained similar language, maps and the line “illegal under international law.” He said “the real legal issue” for the transit commission “was a statement that we determined to be either inaccurate or misleading.”
If you want to help out, please tweet support to @BradTCC, who is being abused by the anti-Israel hooligans.The CJPME, which was notified of the decision on Friday, may appeal the rejection, Ross noted.
Labels: anti-Semitism, bus advertisements, there's no such thing as 'Palestine', Toronto
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