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Haaretz: Seattle Buses to Carry Ads About "Israel War Crimes"
The flap over a controversial bus ad, scheduled to run next week, accusing Israel of "war crimes" has gone international, with a story in Haaretz, a Tel Aviv-based daily newspaper. The paper reports:
*This number, according to Metro spokeswoman Linda Thielke, represents only the amount Metro got for the ads, not what the group paid for them. The campaign paid about $2,700, of which about $1,000 went to the agency that sells Metro's ads.
Starting from December 27, a dozen Seattle buses will carry advertisements about “Israeli war crimes” to mark the second year since the operation Cast Lead in Gaza.
According to a report on Seattle’s KING5 TV, a group calling itself the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has paid more than $1,794* so that twelve buses circulating the city's downtown area will carry an ad reading “Israeli War Crimes: Your tax dollars at work,” featuring a group of children looking at a demolished building in Gaza.
*This number, according to Metro spokeswoman Linda Thielke, represents only the amount Metro got for the ads, not what the group paid for them. The campaign paid about $2,700, of which about $1,000 went to the agency that sells Metro's ads.
