A federal judge has agreed that the Ann Arbor Transit Authority had the right to reject a bus ad campaign by an anti-Israel activist. The ad shows a spider crushing skulls, framed by the words: “Boycott Israel, Boycott Apartheid,” CBS News in Detroit reported.
ACLU Attorney Dan Korobkin said he was disappointed by Judge Mark Goldsmith’s decision, and Blaine Coleman, the anti-Israeli activist that Korobkin is representing—was also disappointed.
In 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the AATA and its CEO Michael Ford on behalf of Coleman, over the agency’s refusal to accept Coleman’s advertisement calling for a boycott of Israel.
“His view is that Israel should be boycotted because it’s equivalent to apartheid, and, as the ACLU, we don’t take a position on the validity of that opinion,” Korobkin told WWJ Newsrasdio 950′s Sandra McNeil. ”But we feel very strongly that, no matter what someone’s opinion is, that speech should be heard.”...To recap: The ACLU will stand up for this free speech (love those scare quotes, Zion-loather)
but not for this free speech:
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Remember: ACLU--and other American "progressive" types--see everything through the prism of the early 1960s' Civil Rights Movement . . . and Israel has been cast in the role of the Middle East's Bull Connor in that little morality play. (Tangentially, Pamela Geller is Mayella Violet Ewell in a remake of _To Kill a Mockingbird_ with an exotic Orientalist twist.)
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