When the Western New York chapter of the Muslim Public Affairs Council bought space on billboards calling for the end of violence in Gaza, the company that owns the billboards removed them, without explanation and to the dismay of Khalid Qazi, the council’s founding president and senior adviser.
Now, the council has partnered with the Buffalo chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, a Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group to try to send the same message. This time, it appears the agency will not object.
“We want a simple thing: Stop the killing and stop the war in Gaza,” said Husam Ghanim, a research associate professor at the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo.
Two digital billboards will be displayed for the next two weeks near the intersection of two of Buffalo’s most heavily traveled expressways, the I-190 and the I-290 in the Town of Tonawanda.
After running for six days, the billboards owned by Lamar Advertising were taken down in November without explanation, Qazi told The Buffalo News.
The billboards were supposed to have remained for two weeks. They displayed a call for cease-fire in Gaza.
“Nobody condones any murder or kidnapping,” Qazi told The News. “We condemn all kinds of terrorism.”
Lamar reimbursed the money for the days…
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