A controversial anti-jihad ad is set to appear in New York City subway stations next week, over the objection of the city’s transit authority and on a federal judge’s order, NBC 4 New York reported.
“Our hands are tied,” a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transit Authority told The New York Times. The ad has faced resistance from transit authorities in other cities, too, for its controversial copy, which exhorts readers to “support Israel” and “defeat jihad” and characterizes the conflict as a “war between the civilized man and the savage.”
Washington, D.C., deferred the ad’s placement out of “concern for public safety,” while San Francisco planned to run it alongside a disclaimer saying transit authority “Muni doesn’t support this message,” according to reports.
The director of the group behind the ad accused transit officials of “kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism,” while the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, as well as the Anti-Defamation League and Council on American Islamic Relations alike branded her a bigot.
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