Controversial bus ads reveal Metro's quiet policy change King County Metro Transit's little-noticed return to an ad policy that allows discussion of controversial issues led it to accept dueling ads making claims about Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority's policy toward Jews.
Dueling ads over Israel and the Palestinian Authority reflect a decision quietly made by King County officials more than a year ago to reopen ad space on Metro Transit buses to political debate.
The latest ad, saying the government of the Palestinian West Bank is "calling for a Jew-free state," went on six Bellevue-based buses this week under a four-week contract with a New York-based right-wing group.
The ad, which ends with the words, "Equal rights for Jews," was a response to the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign's recent ad advocating "Equal rights for Palestinians."