Forces in Israeli society are trying to save that society. I am sure they are trying to preserve the Jewish state, but the least we could do is give them some airtime in the U.S., so that Americans and yes American Jews open one eye. This is from Ynet; I have no idea why "the researcher" is not named:
Israel plundered and destroyed tens of thousands of Palestinian books in the years after the State’s establishment, according to a doctoral thesis to be submitted next month by a Ben-Gurion University researcher.
In an interview with the researcher published on al-Jazeera’s website Thursday, he claimed that Israel destroyed the Palestinian books in the framework of its plan to "Judaize the country" and cut off its Arab residents from their nation and culture.
According to the doctoral dissertation, Israeli authorities collected tens of thousands of Arab books in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Safed, and other towns that were home to Arabs. Israeli officials proceeded to hand out about half the books, while destroying the second half, characterizing them as a "security threat," the researcher said.
…The researcher told al-Jazeera that according to documents he possesses, Israel destroyed 27,000 books in 1958, claiming that they were useless and threatened the State. Authorities sold the books, most of them textbooks, to a paper plant, he said."This was a cultural massacre undertaken in a manner that was worse than European colonialism, which safeguarded the items it stole in libraries and museums," the researcher charged.
Note that Israel is barring the teaching of the Nakba in Israeli schools. Note that 10 years from now this will be in the New York Times. Or maybe 20– when they open the Nakba museum on the mall and Spielberg puts out the blockbuster, "Passover 1948" about the destruction of Jaffa, when the Irgun and the Haganah pushed nearly 70,000 Palestinians out of a city promised to them under Partition, and many of those Palestinians were forced into the sea.
And remember: Exodus by Leon Uris was published in the U.S. in 1958, just as they were destroying these books.
