A Brooklyn member of the New York City Council introduced in the Council today a bill aimed at removal of a mural at the Jordan Pavilion at the World’s Fair which has been sharply criticized by Jewish organizations as anti-Israel and divisive.
Joseph P. Ruggieri, Democratic Councilman-at-large, prepared the bill to forbid public display in the city of “any material which portrays depravity, criminality, unchastity or lack of virtue of a class of persons of any race, color, creed or religion. ” He said the “broad purpose” of the measure would be to ban material “which defames racial and religious groups” but that the immediate objective was removal of the “inflammatory and malicious mural” in the Jordan Pavilion. The measure was referred to committee.
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