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

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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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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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'LIBEL TOURISM': THE FIX WE NEED 10/6/2008

'LIBEL TOURISM': THE FIX WE NEED
by Peter King

The House of Representatives last month passed a bill to prohibit the recognition and enforcement of certain foreign defamation judgments. The Senate is expected to take it up soon.

Yet the bill (HR 6146) is only a step in the right direction: It doesn't do enough to combat "libel tourism."

"Libel tourism" is the practice of litigants seeking out foreign courts whose libel laws are more favorable to plaintiffs than US law - in particular that don't provide the full free-speech protection enshrined in our First Amendment... Read the full story...

Complaints flood papers over Muslim ad 10/4/2008

Complaints flood papers over Muslim ad
by the Associated Press

Newspapers that carried an advertising supplement in recent weeks containing a DVD critical of radical Muslims have faced complaints from readers and questions about whether newspapers should offer a platform to everyone willing to pay for distribution.

This is a scanned image of a Clarion Fund-sponsored newspaper advertising supplement containing a DVD called 'Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.'

Although a few papers refused to carry the DVD, about 70 including The New York Times distributed it on the grounds that rejecting it would violate the sponsor's right to free speech... Read the full story...

Random House Banned Book because of Fear of Muslim Ire 9/29/2008

Random House Banned Book because of Fear of Muslim Ire
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com) London anti-terrorist police officers have arrested three people suspected of trying to torch the home of a London publisher who is printing a novel that was rejected by the large Random House firm because of fears it would upset Muslims.

The attack on the house was linked to the upcoming debut of The Jewel of Medina, an historical novel on the Muslim prophet Mohammed and his first wife... Read the full story...

Iranian Book Mocks Holocaust 9/28/2008

.. Read the full story...

Study says US textbooks misrepresent Jews and Israel 9/25/2008

Study says US textbooks misrepresent Jews and Israel
by Haviv Rettig

American elementary and high school textbooks contain many "gross misrepresentations" of Judaism, Christianity and Israel, according to a book-length study released this week by the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research.

"It is shocking to discover that history and geography textbooks widely used in America's elementary and secondary classrooms contain some of the very same inaccuracies about Christianity, Judaism and the Middle East as those [used] in Iran," the IJCR said in a summary of the findings of the five-year study... Read the full story...

Expert Says Israel is Under 'Media Occupation' 9/23/2008

Expert Says Israel is Under 'Media Occupation'
by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Noted Middle East expert and commentator Dr. Guy Bechor accuses Israel's media of turning itself into an "occupying force" within Israel and behaving like an unelected, yet all-powerful, political machine.

In an article entitled "Down with the Occupation" that appears on his Hebrew-language website, Dr. Bechor – one of Israel's top experts on Middle Eastern affairs and a popular lecturer and interviewee – identifies a process that he says began after 2000... Read the full story...

Saudi Infiltration into U.S. Education 9/18/2008

Saudi Infiltration into U.S. Education
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Sarah Stern, who heads EMET, the Washington, D.C.-based Endowment for Middle East Truth think-tank, says the Saudi Arabians are using their petrodollars to make major inroads into the American educational system, from elementary school and up.

Speaking with Eve Harow on Israel National Radio, Stern said the Saudis are making use of a clause in the little-known Higher Education Law called Title VI to train teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade with an anti-American, anti-Israel bent.

Title-6 'outreach' allows biased academics to bring in off-campus activists, and pay them lecture fees to propagandize teachers and the general public... Read the full story...

Book-Banners Hollywood Ignores 9/17/2008

Book-Banners Hollywood Ignores
by Michelle Malkin

EVER heard Hollywood liberals talk about suspected jihadists the way they talk of suspected GOP "book-banners"? The 9/11 attacks didn't turn celebrity leftists into hawks. But the minute they started reading false rumors about Sarah Palin restricting access to "Daddy's Roommate" and "Heather Has Two Mommies" in her hometown library, Tinseltown's doves became militant warmongers... Read the full story...