A billboard in Detroit that reads “America First Not Israel” is causing controversy and some are accusing its message of being anti-Semitic.
The large sign, placed on 8 Mile Road in Detroit, says that it was “Paid for by Deir Yassin Remembered,” a New-York-based organization that has been posting similar signs throughout the country. Although the metro-Detroit area has one of the largest Arab populations outside the Middle East, as well as a sizable Jewish community, the sign was placed in a part of the city that is neither predominantly Jewish nor Muslim.
In an interview with Detroit’s WXYZ Fox News affiliate, the Anti-Defamation League’s Heidi Budaj said that the ad and its choice of location is trying to “drive a wedge between the American people and the state of Israel.”