For a couple of years, anti-Israel activists have been using bus shelters as a preferred venue to display anti-Israel messages.
This is hugely ironic, since bus stops and bus stations have been the site of numerous Palestinian terror attacks against Jews.
I quickly created an incomplete list of such attacks as a demonstration of what an honest bus shelter advertisement would look like.
The
tweet has been seen over 16,000 times and "liked" 1,300 times.
I also made up a mock advertisement for buses themselves.
Some people have suggested that this be done for real.
Another suggestion was to simply print up stickers for people to place themselves at bus shelters where they live.
An ad at a bus shelter in a major city would cost about $2,000 a month. One an be certain that the ad would be defaced within a day in most cities, just as the "kidnapped" posters were.
Is this a worthwhile thing to do? I think it should be done by an organization that can properly publicize it, and I'd be happy to work with any that is interested. Let me know.
As far as stickers are concerned, I like the idea. The problem is that it is officially illegal to place stickers on bus shelters or public spaces like light poles. On the other hand, everyone ignores that law, and it should be fairly easy for me to create an online store to sell stickers. (I'd have to decide whether to print stickers that are easy to remove, which means the haters can get rid of them fast, or hard to remove, which means that the city workers have to hassle to remove them.)
The other advantage of stickers is that I can make lots of other designs, and in fact already have plenty of them in the memes I've created. (
Here are a bunch from before 2014, most of which would still be fine.) It would be an easy way to counter the haters on campus.
So...what do you think?