This billboard, making the "apartheid" libel and featuring, against the background of Israel's security barrier, the silhouette of an Israeli soldier aiming a gun at a Palestinian child, is one of those which began appearing on the first day of Pesach at twenty-five Metro North train stations in suburban New York.
The ad, sponsored by the Chicago-based organisation American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), is, as the ADL
states,
"indicative of [AMP's]the organization’s continuing efforts to promote its extreme anti-Israel views to a wider American audience."
For the AMP,
warns the ADL (which is often perceived as too sanguine regarding the presence of Islam in Western societies),
'is the leading organization providing anti-Zionist training and education to students and Muslim community organizations in the country. Founded in 2005, AMP promotes extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans about "the just cause of Palestine and the rights of self-determination."
Although the size of its membership remains unclear, the Chicago-based non-profit organization operates several chapters across the country. While its educational efforts have been primarily geared toward providing the Muslim community with inflammatory rhetoric and false accusations against Israel to promote advocacy for Palestine, AMP has also placed a heavy emphasis on supporting and helping coordinate the activity of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the primary organizer of anti-Israel events on campus with dozens of chapters.
AMP seeks to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state. Its materials are prominently featured at its events and conferences, in its publications and through materials available on its website....
AMP has its organizational roots in the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), an anti-Semitic group that served as the main propaganda arm for Hamas in the United States until it was dissolved in 2004. Since its creation in 2005, AMP continues to work closely with some former IAP leaders who currently hold positions as AMP board members.'
Read the ADL's comprehensive report on this menacing organisation
here
