NAZIS AND ISLAM ONE AND THE SAME

MTA Bigots Plaster Nazi Flag Ads on NYC Subway But BAN ALL AFDI Ads

ByPAMELA GELLER on November 24, 2015

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Despite having won numerous legal free speech battles against the NYC MTA to run our pro-Israel, anti-jihad ads in New York’s transit system, the NYC MTA has prohibited all of our ads under the guise of a political/issue-related advertising ban.

But they are running this — Nazi ads on NYC subways.

Last month, a judge ruled that ads by a Muslim group declaring, “The Muslims Are Coming,” had to run. When a judge ruled that our ads had to run, the NYC MTA issued a ban that appears increasingly to only apply to AFDI. The Muslim supremacist ad and now this Nazi ad can run. But not our pro-freedom ads.

The march of totalitarianism.

Should The MTA Allow These Nazi Insignias On Subway Cars? by Erik Baard, The Gothamist, November 23, 2015

Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious.

“Half the seats in my car had Nazi insignias inside an American flag, while the other half had the Japanese flag in a style like the World War II design,” said straphanger Ann Toback. “So I had a choice, and I chose to sit on the Nazi insignia because I really didn’t want to stare at it.”

Toback said she doesn’t object to the TV show as a work of fiction, but insists, “I shouldn’t have to sit staring at a Nazi insignia on my way to work.”

As it happens, Toback is the executive director of The Workmen’s Circle, an organization founded in 1892 that fosters Jewish identity through culture and social justice causes. The group also traces its resistance to European Fascism to 1933.

MTA spokesperson Adam Lisberg confirmed that one Shuttle train was decked out in imagery from the online TV series, using conformable vinyl wrapping. The show’s advertising campaign began with 260 subway station posters on November 9, and the Shuttle wrap runs November 15 through December 14.

Amazon didn’t immediately reply with a comment on the subway ads.

Many New Yorkers and their families are from Asian nations once brutally occupied by the Japanese Empire. For them the seats opposite the Nazi insignias might be just as jarring.

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