article_snippet.sent: A controversial pro-Israel advocacy group known for publicly criticizing Islam can display Islam political advertisement containing the phrase 'Killing Jews is Worship' on New York City's buses, a judge ruled this week.
article_snippet.sent: Metropolitan Transportation Authority claim that the poster could incite violence and appreciates the efforts necessary to prevent violent attacks targeting Jewish people.
article_snippet.sent: A federal judge has ordered Metropolitan Transportation Authority to run on Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses anti-Islam ads featuring the phrase 'Killing Jews is Worship' created by the pro-Israel lobby American Freedom Defense Initiative .
article_snippet.sent: An ad from the pro-Israel American Freedom Defense Initiative is seen on an articulated Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) bus featuring a 1941 photograph of Hitler and
article_snippet.sent: In An ad from the pro-Israel American Freedom Defense Initiative, a man's menacing face wrapped with a checkered scarf is shown next to the quote, which is attributed to "Hamas MTV.
article_snippet.sent: It also includes a disclaimer that An ad from the pro-Israel American Freedom Defense Initiative's display does not imply the MTA's endorsement of the MTA views.
article_snippet.sent: The MTA, whose buses and subways have been forums for policy debates, has accepted other ads from the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
article_snippet.sent: In a September statement, the MTA said the MTA recognized that an ad was a parody of 'MyJihad' ads sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which said it was promoting the concept that jihad is an individual and personal struggle rather than a violent conflict or terrorism.
article_snippet.sent: Monica Klein, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, noted in a statement that the mayor has said 'these anti-Islamic ads are outrageous, inflammatory and wrong, and have no place in New York City, or anywhere.' '
article_snippet.sent: These hateful messages serve only to divide and stigmatize when we should be coming together as one city,' she added. '
article_snippet.sent: While those behind these anti-Islamic ads only display those behind these ads irresponsible intolerance, the rest of us who may be forced to view those behind these ads can take comfort in the knowledge that we share a better, loftier and nobler view of humanity.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Ad was created by pro-Israel lobby American Freedom Defense Initiative .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: MTA officials claimed in lawsuit the 'Killing Jews' ad could incite violence .
  