RE: [ha-Safran]: Intellectual Freedom topic question
Thank you all so much for the many good suggestions. I have a lot of good topics to look into now. Does anyone know the name of the librarian's organization that is working on the spread of misinformation about Israel on college campuses? Does anyone know anything about it? Thanks again! Ruth Bryskier Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: Intellectual Freedom topic question
Does anyone know the name of the librarian's organization that is working on the spread of misinformation about Israel on college campuses? Does anyone know anything about it? One thing that comes to my mind is CAMERA's Adopt-A-Library Program, but I don't think that is particularly for college campuses. (CAMERA stands for Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, and it's website is http://www.camera.org) -Stanley Nachamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Authority Control Librarian (currently on leave) City University of New York Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Intellectual Freedom topic question
Is there another subject that would be more appropriate right now for an intellectual freedom seminar? === There is a new kind of denial in the Arab media and texts these days, in addition to Holocaust Denial. This is the new history that says the Biblical Israelites were really Arab tribes (they spoke Arabic?) and that they have long since disappeared, that the present day Jews in Israel have no relationship to ancient Israelites but are instead descended from Khazars, that the ancient Temple was built by Canaanites, not Israelites, and that these Canaanites (or sometimes Philistines) are the direct ancestors of today's Palestinians. Who can forget Mrs. Ashrawi's description of Jesus: He was a Palestinian prophet. The problem is that this misinformation/propaganda is now finding its way into mainstream American books, as if there were some scholarly or historical basis for it, as if it were anything other than faslehood intended to serve a certain agenda - just like Holocaust Denial, equally insidious. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
