THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Transport for London has said a series of anti-Israel posters seen on tube trains across the capital are “unauthorised acts of vandalism”.
The posters appeared in advertising slots on trains at the weekend ahead of the annual “Israel Apartheid Week” campaign which began on Monday.
They showed mocked-up versions of BBC reports and claimed the Corporation’s coverage of Israel and the Palestinians was biased.
But Tfl said in a statement that the posters had not been authorised and were being removed.
A TfL spokesman said: “These are not authorised adverts. It is fly posting and therefore an act of vandalism which we take extremely seriously.
“Our staff and contractors are working to immediately remove any found on our network.”
The campaign claimed British-made arms were used to “massacre” Palestinians during Israel’s last operation against Hamas.
Posters the London underground were titled “Apartheid is Great Britain”.
Another image targeted security company G4S, which operates some prisons in Israel and the West Bank.
The posters accused the firm of “securing Israeli apartheid” and doing “whatever it takes to secure profits”.
Images on social media on Sunday suggested the adverts were part of a four poster campaign by activists.
It is thought more than 500 could have been posted, with anti-Israel activists claiming they would be on display to the tube’s four million customers for the entirety of the apartheid week campaign.
A London Jewish Forum spokesman said: “These posters are awful smears that do nothing to contribute to peace and dialogue, placing significant strains on inter-community relations across London.
“They are an act of vandalism, seeking to undermine the UK’s relationship with Israel and designed to foster discomfort. We welcome Transport for London’s commitment to quickly remove them.”
Conservative London Assembly member and transport spokesman Richard Tracey said: “It is utterly deplorable that these offensive ‘adverts’ have been smeared across parts of the tube network by a small number of activists.
“Racist and deeply insensitive propaganda will not be tolerated anywhere in our capital, let alone on our transport network, and I urge anyone who sees these posters to report them to TfL staff immediately.”
A BBC spokesperson said: “We are committed to reporting all aspects of a very complex conflict in a fair and balanced way, reflecting a range of voices.”
The posters caused a stir in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and MK Yair Lapid from Yesh Atid – who described the posters as “unacceptable” – claiming they were instrumental in Tfl’s removal of the posters.
Mr Lapid said at a meeting in the Knesset today:”I contacted the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who is a friend of Israel and explained that the State of Israel found these things unacceptable, I asked him to intervene. He explained that they were put up without authorization and would give the instruction for them to be taken down immediately.”
Mr Netanyahu however disputed this saying that he had instructed Foreign Ministry director Dore Gold to deal with the issue.
Death, by a thousand cuts
Netty-a-Boo Boo: ” Mayor Johnson! You MUST remove the written TRUTH from these busses seen by millions of Goyim immediately!” “Oh, you’re just a gentile goyim”… “Dore Gold, You MUST remove the written TRUTH from these busses seen by millions of Goyim immediately!”.
“Small number of activists”??… My ass!!! They’re growing strong and waking up. The joooz days are numbered I would say. Especially in Europe. They’ve tackled these greased up pigs many times before, and will again. Their police system is going to break as the cops wake up to their terrorist boss’s deeds. There will be hangings and beheadings in Europe. In the US, I’m not so sure yet.
Those filthy anti-Semites should be turned into slave labor for the Jews. That is their reason for existence! Kill their children and parents and burn down their homes. The only cure for anti-Semitism is prison, torture, work and death. Kill all the anti-Semites! Wait; who will serve as our slaves?
Good for the Brits for disconnecting from the telly long enough for some political action. Hope it goes worldwide.
Great. I support them, but this is not nearly enough. The Jews have top roles in he BBC and I would bet they are extremely biased, just as reporting is in the US. Here is my question which I think might be the problem. How many real British people are protesting against Israel? How many native, white British are a part of these protests?
Why aren’t the anti israhelli protesters targeting israhell’s refusal to accept any “refugees”. Why don’t they also complain about the total lack of dieversity (sic). Seems there is a law for jews and a different one for the goyim. This isn’t anti semitism, just the truth. End the double standards.
Why I’m boycotting Israel…
There seems to be a great deal of global concern about the boycott of Israeli trade at this time, and this never ending subject of Anti-Semitism, so let’s make something perfectly clear: Zionism is not Judaism. Equating Zionism with Judaism is a misconception that’s been propagated so widely, and for so long, that even many Jews cannot discern the difference. It’s this fantasy of a “Chosen People”.
Zionism is exactly the same as Nazism when you get right down to it. You can change the label and the characters in the game, but the mindset remains the exactly same: A race of “Imaginary Superior Beings” out to dominate the world through fascism.
Zionism, and all of these fascist ideologies we’ve seen, is a construct of the psychopathic mind. It is a mental disorder, sick minds in concert with other sick minds, in an orchestra of the criminally insane. It’s an illness that’s infecting the entire world at this point in history, and it’s literally destroying Israel from within, and the rest of the world without.
Zionism is a parasite, a deadly cancer, hiding behind Judaism and defaming it. It is the root of all this hatred and Anti-Semitism we see in the world today: Another race of “Imaginary Superior Beings”, attacking others, proclaiming their superiority over all of humanity, and screaming “Terrorist” – “Anti-Semitism”, and calling for the destruction of anyone who doesn’t bow down to their ideology.
Zionists are the true Anti-Semites, out to destroy Judaism, Islam and Christianity, replacing these religions, and global political structure with the Zionist New World Order. They are the true Anti-Christians and Anti-Semites combined. The labels change throughout history, but the mindset behind these ideologies, the sickness, persists. Zionism propagates fear, hatred and division, nothing but darkness.
There are no “Chosen People”. The worth of a soul will only be measured by how much it has loved, nothing more nothing less. The choice is yours alone. Labels, however they choose to define themselves, will not save you.