Via Pamela Geller.

Today in news that is not shocking to anyone: the Anti-Defamation League released a statement criticizing Pamela Geller’s terrible anti-Islam Metro ads that compare Islam to Hitler.

In a statement, David C. Friedman, the D.C. Regional Director of the ADL said that “the Anti-Defamation League deplores the use of this Hitler imagery and this message of intolerance.” He added that “these ads are highly offensive and inflammatory. Pro-Israel doesn’t mean anti-Muslim. And support for Israel cannot be built on bigoted anti-Muslim and anti-Arab stereotypes.” Despite deploring the ads, Friedman and the ADL noted that the ads are “clearly protected political speech under the First Amendment.”

Geller, an anti-Islam blogger, first became known in D.C. when her American Freedom Defense Initiative funded controversial ads throughout Metro in 2012. The ads used a quote from the Quran next to a photo of the Twin Towers burning on 9/11/2001. According to Metro, they spent $35,000 to try and block the ads.

Her latest ad, which is a response an ad about “Israel’s occupation” placed by the American Muslims for Palestine, claims that “Islamic Jew-hatred” is “in the Quran,” and depicts a picture of Adolph Hitler with Muslim leader Haj Amin al-Husseini, saying they were “staunch [allies].”

“The search for peace in the Middle East is enormously complicated and nuanced,” Friedman also said. “It would be hard to think of two groups less qualified to lead a public debate on difficult issues of religion and extremism—especially in ads designed for the side of a bus.”