Bus ads shed no light, only heat on Middle East conflict
…The “free speech” card has been played to justify the bus ads, but no serious-minded person would maintain that inflammatory images of fallen buildings is a way to educate people about a complex and emotional conflict in a foreign land. The ads don’t rise to the level of foreseeably inciting or producing violence, which would take them out of the protected speech category…
The bus ads shed only heat, not light, on the controversy. They are intended to foster anti-Israel opinion. Even the name of the group, “Stop30billion-Seattle” misleads people as to the economic and military aid figures from the U.S. to Israel, failing to mention the billions of foreign aid dollars American taxpayers supply to Arab countries…