A group that wants to run anti-Hamas advertisements on New York City buses argued to a federal appellate court that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s decision to ban ads blasting Hamas for its stated desire to kill Jews should be undone as a violation of the First Amendment.
Attorney David Yerushalmi, appearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, said a new MTA policy that prohibits all political ads is flawed because it contains language that allows the authority to ban ads that are a direct incitement to violence.
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