Waldo resident criticizes FLAME ad in Maine Sunday Telegram
Jamila Levasseur calls the October 25 advertisement pure genocide denial and a response to local politics.
By Kevin Iyer ·
A resident of Waldo, Maine, published a letter on November 2 challenging a paid advertisement placed by the group FLAME.
Levasseur describes the October 25 ad in the Maine Sunday Telegram as an effort to deny the genocide in Gaza. The organization, which stands for Facts and Logic About the Middle East, released a national campaign titled Facts Shatter Gaza Genocide Lies. The Maine version included specific language targeting unscrupulous politicians.
The author links the ad's timing to the political environment in Maine. She states that the group is clearly worried about Troy Jackson. Levasseur argues the paid placement is a pathetic attempt to sell the conflict as a humane response to Palestinian demands for self-determination.
In the letter, she notes that most of her Jewish family was exterminated during the Nazi genocide. She writes that one does not need a similar family history to be horrified by images of obliterated neighborhoods, mass graves in hospital courtyards, and children burning alive in bombed tents. She adds that people only need to have humanity to react to such scenes.
Levasseur has provided evidence and cited the Genocide Convention in her own opinion pieces for more than three years. She argues that Israel is making Gaza uninhabitable for all life while accelerating ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. The letter concludes by calling for a boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel, as well as a complete arms embargo.
