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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Misshaping minds at Brooklyn College 9/1/2010

Misshaping minds at Brooklyn College
by Ronald Radosh

Brooklyn College has assigned, as a book that all incoming transfer students must read, the extremely slanted work "How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America."

A letter from the CUNY college's administration to faculty says the assignment is an "effort to provide a common experience for this population of students." Appalled that this is the "common experience" that administrators aim to foster, faculty members alerted The New York Jewish Week to the scandal... Read the full story...

Canada: Book Demonizes Israel in School Libraries 8/26/2010

Canada: Book Demonizing Israel in School Libraries
by Elad Benari

The school board in Toronto, Canada, has decided to support a novel that portrays IDF soldiers and Judea and Samaria residents in a negative way.

“The Shepherd's Granddaughter” is a novel published in 2008 by Canadian author Anne Laurel Carter. The story tells the tale of a young Arab girl living in Judea and Samaria who wants to be a shepherd like her grandfather... Read the full story...

US National Archives to house infamous Nazi Papers 8/25/2010

US National Archives to house infamous Nazi papers
by Associated Press
08/25/2010 18:23

Patton had papers setting framework for Holocaust.

SAN MARINO, California — During the final days of World War II, as American soldiers were returning from Germany with swastika-inscribed helmets, flags and other Nazi memorabilia, Gen. George Patton was packing up his own set of souvenirs.

The legendary field commander took four pages of documents signed by Adolf Hitler that laid the legal framework for killing 6 million Jews — the so-called Nuremberg Laws.

On Wednesday, The Huntington Library, a sprawling complex of libraries, museums and botanical gardens in this leafy Los Angeles suburb, plans to hand over the documents to the government-run National Archives, thus concluding a 65-year-old odyssey.

The papers, which among other things rescinded the citizenship of German Jews and forbid them to marry non-Jews, are the only original pieces of Nuremberg trial evidence missing from the collection, said National Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper.

Holocaust scholars have described them as priceless, saying they provide an outline of the beginnings of a movement that led to the most atrocious act of genocide in history.

It hasn't been lost on officials at The Huntington that Patton, a notorious war trophy collector, carried the papers out of Germany illegally.

"We were aware of the fact that General Patton, who had received the documents from his staff as a gift and deposited them at The Huntington, had not paid attention in his souvenir hunting to the orders of his commander in chief," library President Steve S... Read the full story...

ADL denounces Iranian website as 'cess-pool of anti-Semitism' 8/10/2010

ADL denounces Iranian website as ‘cesspool of anti-Semitism’
August 10, 2010 NEW YORK (Press Release)

— Calling it a “virtual cesspool of anti-Semitism,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned an Iranian Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial and called on the United States to publicly denounce the Iranian regime’s blatant anti-Semitism.

The “HoloCartoon” Web site purports to offer a historical narrative of events occurring before, during and after World War II... Read the full story...

Gush Katif Book and Debate Answer Hard Questions 7/29/2010

Gush Katif Book and Debate Answer Hard Questions
by Hillel Fendel

Commemorations of the fifth anniversary of the Gush Katif expulsion continue, including the publication of a new book and the role played by the media during the Disengagement period.

A new book by journalist Elyashiv Reichner is entitled Ketom HaMaavak, a play on the word "katom," rendering the meaning of the title both “At the End of the Struggle” and “Orange Struggle” – referring to the official color chosen to symbolize the year-long fight to keep Gush Katif in Jewish hands.

The book seeks to answer many important questions which, despite the volumes of words that have been written about the fall of Gush Katif, have still not been properly addressed... Read the full story...

Book Review: DOOMED TO FAILURE? THE POLITICS AND INTELLIGENCE... 7/11/2010

OFIRA SELIKTAR, DOOMED TO FAILURE? THE POLITICS AND INTELLIGENCE OF THE OSLO PEACE PROCESS.
Reviewed by Alexander H. Joffe
Published in: SPME Reviews and Recommendations (Section 1) July 11, 2010

Ofira Seliktar, Doomed to Failure? The Politics and Intelligence of the Oslo Peace Process.
Praeger Security International. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2009, 238 pp. US $49.95

The famed French historian of the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel, posited that history moves at different speeds, "the permanent and the ephemeral, the slow-moving and the fast …what changes and what endures." [1] Ofira Seliktar’s book shows how Israeli, Western, and to a vastly smaller extent, Palestinian idea-setting and decision-making elites influenced one another and various publics to create the fabric of the Oslo process... Read the full story...

MK Orlev tells PM to Give Obama a Lesson on PA School Syllabus 7/6/2010

MK Orlev tells PM to Give Obama a Lesson on PA School Syllabus
by INN Staff

MK Zevulun Orlev, (The Jewish Home), who chairs the Knesset Education Committee, turned to Prime Minister Netanyahu with a request that when meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, he bring up the subject of the incitement to hatred that fills PA textbooks. He asked the PM to tell Obama the conclusions of the Knesset Committee’s Monday discussion on the subject..

“When the curriculum is based on a sequence that starts with Holocaust denial, and goes on to teach that Israel’s existence is not legitimate and that a violent struggle must be waged against Israel, there is not much chance of a Palestinian leader completing a peace process.”, Orlev said at the meeting... Read the full story...

Terra Incognita: When only critics are heard 7/6/2010

Terra Incognita: When only the critics are heard
by Seth J. Frantzman

That there is so much focus on the Holy Land is a fact of life. The trouble is that the narrative of Israel is being communicated by those who dislike it.

Among the themes that top the list of the coming year’s publications dealing with the Middle East are Iranian history, Lebanon’s vibrancy, Saudi Arabia and stories of American combat soldiers... Read the full story...

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