{"id":37170,"date":"2024-10-20T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=37170"},"modified":"2024-10-20T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T20:48:11","slug":"fake-posters-criticizing-u-s-support-of-israel-posted-at-s-f-muni-bus-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/fake-posters-criticizing-u-s-support-of-israel-posted-at-s-f-muni-bus-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake posters criticizing U.S. support of Israel posted at S.F. Muni bus stops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By\u00a0Michael Cabanatuan<\/a>, Reporter Oct 18, 2024 (SFChronicle.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More than a dozen fake anti-Israel bus stop posters appeared this month masquerading as legitimate Muni advertising for\u00a0Fleet Week, officials said.Gabrielle Lurie\/The Chronicle<\/em><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the Blue Angels and a fleet of ships and sailors, San Francisco\u2019s Fleet Week<\/a> brought more than a dozen fake anti-Israel bus stop posters masquerading as legitimate Muni advertising for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phony advertisements, inside locked glass enclosures, feature the red, white and blue Fleet Week logo across the top, with headlines, large photos and text beneath. Officials with Clear Channel, which handles advertising on Muni, have removed 16 of the posters since Oct. 12, said Michael Roccaforte, a Muni spokesperson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the mini-billboards featured a photo of Aaron Bushnell\u2019s self-immolation. Bushnell, a 25-year-old Air Force member, died after setting himself on fire<\/a> in February while shouting \u201cFree Palestine\u201d in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington to protest Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. \u201cHonor Aaron Bushnell,\u201d the headline read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another poster headlined \u201cRemembering the USS Liberty\u201d displayed a photo of the ship, torpedoed by Israel in an 1967 attack off the Sinai Peninsula that killed 34 of the ship\u2019s crew, according to the U.S. Navy. Beneath a photo of the ship is a photo of a monument to the dead with the words \u201cThey served in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the fake ads, as seen on X<\/a>, contained text condemning U.S. support of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roccaforte said the ads were not authorized by the Municipal Transportation Agency and that the agency considers their installation in the shelters to be vandalism. He would not disclose how they were installed in the locked glass cases \u201cbecause we do not want to invite copycat behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear Channel representatives did not return calls seeking comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reach Michael Cabanatuan: mcabanatuan@sfchronicle.com; X: @ctuan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 18, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Michael Cabanatuan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REPORTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Cabanatuan is a general assignment and breaking news reporter who\u2019s covered everything from wildfires and sports fans to protests and COVID masking requirements. He\u2019s also written extensively about transportation and covered Contra Costa County for The Chronicle. He\u2019s ridden high-speed trains in Japan, walked in the Transbay Tube, been tear-gassed in Oakland and exposed to nude protesters in the Castro. Cabanatuan worked at the Paradise Post (long before anyone heard of the town), the former West County Times (in Richmond) and the Modesto Bee before joining The Chronicle. He is a two-time graduate of UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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