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Vandals hit billboards in S.F. with anti-Israel invective

by dan pine

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An activist group claimed responsibility for vandalizing San Francisco billboards last week, on which anti-Israel messages were plastered over legitimate advertisements.

The group, calling itself the “California Department of Corrections,” claimed in an Internet posting to have struck billboards in nine city locations, including the Tenderloin, the Mission, the Haight, Potrero Hill and South of Market.

The bogus billboards, designed to resemble a Treasury note for $7 million, featured the heading “Thanks for the Blank Check, America” and an Israeli flag. The “small print” went on to excoriate Israel and to criticize the United States for its Israel aid package, purportedly costing $7 million per day.

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Vandals remade this billboard at the corner of 18th and Guerrero streets in San Francisco.
Tony Alwin, a spokesman for Clear Channel Outdoor, which owns and manages billboards, knew of only one vandalized site, at the corner of Guerrero and 18th streets. He said the dimensions and location of the billboard made it an easy target.

“This particular product is different from most,” Alwin said Aug. 4 from the company’s Phoenix headquarters. “Most of our displays are very hard to get at, high off the ground with no easy access. This is called a junior poster, 5 feet by 11 feet, and not far off the ground.”

He said that illegal billboard would be taken down immediately, and that Clear Channel Outdoor takes the vandalism seriously.

“I talked to our management about the issue,” Alwin said. “Everyone’s pretty upset with it, and we’ll see what we can do to prevent it in the future.”

Yitzhak Santis, director of Middle East affairs for the S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council, noted past incidents of anti-Israeli vandalism on billboards and bus shelter posters.

“I think they are part of the revolutionary left in the Bay Area,” Santis said of the activists. “They call it guerrilla billboarding, where they put their own billboards and ads in shelters. Obviously it’s illegal, and we’re very concerned about this.”

Santis stressed the need, however, to put the incident in context.

“This is all part of the BDS [boycott-divestment-sanctions] campaign to demonize Israel,” he said. “Whether bus shelters or billboards, it’s all part of that campaign. The community needs to be aware of what is happening.”


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Posted by jeffoxen
08/09/2010  at  05:07 PM
WHERE FROM IT COMES

hb 1388 obama funds 20 million to bring hamas to Bay Area

the news that Mr.Obama
is a regular Muslim Anti-semite is a common secret
I believe.His policy says
it every day. But today
spent $20,000,000 to move members/supporters of Hamas, a terrorist organization, to the United States: housing, food, the whole enchilada… HB 1388 PASSED

Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U.S. needs to know….

Something happened… H.R. 1388 was passed, behind our backs. You may want to read about it… It wasn’t mentioned on the news… just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen..

Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA. This is the news that didn’t make the headlines ....

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in “migration assistance”
to the Palestinian refugees and “conflict victims” in Gaza.

The “presidential determination,” which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States , was signed and appears in the Federal Register…

Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

Now we learn that he is allowing thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.

These important, and insightful, issues are being “lost” in the blinding bail-outs and “stimulation” packages.

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Posted by jeffoxen
08/09/2010  at  05:56 PM
it's a second step

20 000 palestinians from Iraq,Saddam fervid partisans,are already here in the same way.We can see them at every anti-Israel, anti-Semitic rally.And they ready to use force and arms here and against us,say thank you jewish pro-obama agitators,one day they will come for them too,

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