Librarians for Fairness

A librarians' association that advocates for academic balance in our libraries

Librarians for Fairness is an organization dedicated to bringing positive programs about Israel to libraries across the nation and to promoting democratic values. We work to ensure that Israel's viewpoint is represented fairly in our libraries through books, periodicals, audiovisuals, online resources, and scheduled events.

Book Discussion Kit

Now featuring a current affairs bestseller—

The Case for Democracy: The Power to Overcome Tyranny & Terror

If you would like to catalog and add The Case for Democracy to your library’s collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information, and phone. Please accept this book as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

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Show a Film on the Middle East

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Now offering Israel 4 Kids CD

American Children can now take a virtual tour of Israel with Srulik, a popular sandal-footed Israeli cartoon character. This fun and interactive tour will make Israel come alive as students experience the story of Israel that rarely gets told. Children and educators alike can learn about Israel’s cool Internet technologies (i.e. AOL instant messaging), watermelon picking robots, live-saving cancer drugs, and other joint U.S.-Israeli projects and become better informed about Israel’s unique history, national languages, climate, food, branches of government, and currency.

If you would like to catalog and add Israel 4 Kids to your library’s collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information, and phone. Please accept the CD as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

Israel in the World

This colorful volume takes an in-depth look at a remarkable achievement: how one small and very young country has successfully become one of the world's technological leaders.

From agriculture to medicine, Israel stands right at the forefront of technological development. Learn about the country's many achievements and breakthoughs, and how it's poised to remain on the industrial cutting edge in the foreseeable future. The countless accomplishments outlined here would be dazzling, even if they hadn't emerged from a nation that didn't even exist 60 years ago: Israel created the ICQ chat facility that is now used by hundreds of millions of internet surfers each day; the technology that allows you to leave voicemail messages on a mobile phone; the medical diagnostic equipment (including magnetic resonance imaging) found in most hospitals; and the surveillance equipment that alerts security officials to suspicious activities at airports. Find out about the people who made such progress possible; the educational system that allowed these citizens, many of them recent immigrants, to reach their full potential; and how Israel uses its knowledge for the well-being of the world.

If you would like to catalog and add Israel in the World to your library’s collection, please send us an e-mail with your name, the library’s shipping information, and phone. Please accept the CD as a DONATION as long as our supply lasts.

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In the News

Italy Honors Israel in Turin Book Fair, Ignores Howls of Protest 5/8/2008


Italy Honors Israel in Turin Book Fair, Ignores Howls of Protest

by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Italian President Giorgio Napolitano opened the prestigious Turin book fair Thursday amid opposition from Muslims and the Italian Left over the choice of Israel as the event's guest of honor.

"No dialogue is possible if there is a refusal to recognize Israel," Napolitano said at Israel's stand at the fair, the European Jewish Press reported... Read the full story...

Israel Book Connections 4/28/2008

The Anti-Defamation League has compiled Israel Book Connections.

Israel Book Connections is a list of recommended, widely available books for children and teens, grades K-12, about life in Israel for kids, parents, teachers and librarians. These books present the lives of typical Israeli children and young adults in every day settings. Some of these books are historical, some involve politics and some just tell a story about someone’s life who happens to live in Israel... Read the full story...

Terrorizing Publishing 4/10/2008

Terrorizing Publishing
by Roger Kimball

This spring, Encounter Books is publishing "Willful Blindness: a Memoir of the Jihad," by Andrew McCarthy, who helped prosecute the "blind sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman and other jihadists.

I recently received a message from someone who helps distribute our books in Britain: "Can you please let us know if there are any references to Saudis and terrorist[s] in the book... Read the full story...

A Controversial "Libraries and Human Rights" Conference 4/1/2008


A Controversial "Libraries and Human Rights" Conference
by David Durant (Heretical Librarian blogger)

A few weeks ago, Librarians for Fairness alerted me to a conference being held in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Authority. Running from March 31 - April 2, the event, "International Conference on Libraries from a Human Rights Perspective", is designed to "highlight the importance of achieving human rights related to library work and these rights include: freedom of expression, freedom of access to information, tolerance, acceptance of the other, respect of diversity and cultural rights."

The conference is sponsored by an organization called the Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies in cooperation with IFLA... Read the full story...

Joshua Saidoff's Open Letter To Claudia Lux Re: IFLA's Israel-Bashing 3/28/2008

Claudia Lux, President
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands
E-mail: _IFLA@ifla.org _ (mailto:ifla@ifla.org )

Dear Ms. Lux,

I am writing to express my concern regarding IFLA’s announced meeting at the Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies. I am a student in Jerusalem. I spent the last finals period in the Islamic reading room at the National Library... Read the full story...

AJC-CMIP Report: Scant Progress in Revising Palestinian Textbooks 3/20/2008

AJC-CMIP Report: Scant Progress in Revising Palestinian Textbooks

March 20, 2008 – New York – Seven years after the Palestinian Authority began publishing textbooks for use in West Bank and Gaza schools, there still is no recognition of the State of Israel and no advocacy of peace with it. Instead, the textbooks promote violent struggle, while hateful descriptions of Jews and the West remain prevalent... Read the full story...

Fatah Leader, School Books Support Terrorism Against US in Iraq 3/10/2008

Fatah Leader, School Books Support Terrorism Against US in Iraq

by Ezra HaLevi

(IsraelNN.com) A leader of Mahmoud Abbas's US-backed Fatah party has come out in support of the terrorist war being fought against US and British forces in Iraq. PA text books for school children also push attacks on American and British forces

Mahmoud Ismail, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, expressed his support for the war on the US during an interview on official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV, which is under the control of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas... Read the full story...

Arab Terrorist Attacks Jerusalem's Merkaz Harav Yeshiva [LIBRARY]: 8 Dead 3/6/2008

Note from Librarians for Fairness: This murderous terrorist attack against innocent Israeli students was IN THE SCHOOL'S LIBRARY. Sadly, this is yet another incident to add to our compilation (posted here on March 3rd), DOES IFLA KNOW ABOUT THESE ATTACKS?

Arab Terrorist Attacks Jerusalem's Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva [LIBRARY}: 8 Dead

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) An Arab terrorist infiltrated Jerusalem's Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva at around 8:30 Thursday night and murdered eight Jews... Read the full story...