spitt
10.06.08, 23:24
Ten kraj coraz bardziej przypomina pre-hitlerowskie Niemcy ,
kiedy Zydzi mysleli ze trzymaja byka za rogi ,...
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Banned in the U.S.A. (Almost)
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By SAREE MAKDISI - June 10, 2008
I didn't think America was a place where bookstores barred people
for their viewpoints, until it happened to me, right here in
Washington, D.C., the city of my birth.
I was scheduled to speak at Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse last month about my latest book, "Palestine Inside Out:
An Everyday Occupation." My appearance was canceled when the
bookstore owners realized that my book concludes by questioning the
viability of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Instead it proposes a single democratic, secular and
multicultural state in which Israelis and Palestinians live
peacefully as citizens with equal rights.
"I do not believe that your book will further constructive debate in
the United States," one of the owners wrote to me in an e-mail. "A
single state is not a solution." I was dismayed that my invitation
was rescinded because I express a different point of view from the
one sanctioned by a supposedly independent bookstore. Yet the
cancellation seems to fit into a larger pattern of nationwide
censorship about this issue.
Stanford professor Joel Beinin had been invited to speak about
Israel and Palestine at a Silicon Valley school last year; his
appearance was canceled when the school was criticized for booking
the event. Tony Judt of New York University was invited to speak
about Israel and Palestine at the Polish Consulate in New York last
fall; his talk was canceled after the consulate came under pressure
from the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee.
The fact that senior scholars are prevented from speaking in well-
known forums because they do not toe an official line suggests that
the civic culture on which our country was founded has broken down,
at least when it comes to Palestine and Israel ,...
www.counterpunch.org/makdisi06102008.html
