Pro-Israel Subway Ads Will Appear on New York City Buses The group behind the subway station ads urging riders to "support Israel" and "defeat jihad" plans to run nearly identical ads on New York City buses, it said - and, this time, it appears that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will not object. One week after amending its advertising policy amid an uproar over ads placed by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, the authority said Friday that it would not reject the group's latest purchase. Last month, the group's ads first appeared in 10 subway stations with the message, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man." Then, between two Stars of David, the ads read: "Support Israel. Defeat Jihad. The authority initially rejected the ads, citing their "demeaning" language. The American Freedom Defense Initiative sued, and in July won a federal court ruling on First Amendment grounds. As part of the new advertising guidelines approved by the authority last week, the demeaning-language standard is no longer sufficient to reject an ad. A new provision allows an ad to be rejected if the authority "reasonably foresees" that it "would incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace." But Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the authority, said the provision would not be invoked in the case, allowing the ads to run and avoiding the chance of further litigation. Pamela Geller, the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, said the authority probably had little desire for "another stunning and embarrassing defeat in the court." Mr. Donovan said that according to the new guidelines, "the original ad that sparked the lawsuit would have been accepted." He noted, in a nod to the new language in the authority's policy, that Ms. Geller's campaign had not sparked violence. Instead, it inspired vandalism and led to the purchase of ads by religious groups preaching tolerance. The authority's new ad policy requires that so-called viewpoint ads include a disclaimer that the ad does not imply the authority's endorsement of its views. But the timing of this policy's adoption has created a temporary inconsistency. Because Ms. Geller's ads were placed before the change, they contain no disclaimer, but ads from groups who signed contracts after the policy's enactment will. In Ms. Geller's latest New York City ads, the layout and wording are largely the same as the old, but the phrase "Support Israel" will at times be replaced by others, including "Defend America," "Support the Hindus" and "Defend Nigerian Christians." The group tallied another legal victory on Friday, this time in Washington. Last month, as violent and sometimes deadly protests across much of the Muslim world were linked to an American-made video mocking the Prophet Muhammad, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said it had "deferred" placing the group's ads "out of a concern for public safety, given current world events." A federal judge said Friday that the authority must place the ads by Monday. A spokesman for the authority said the agency would comply.