Tens of thousands of Palestinian books destroyed after Israel’s establishmen
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30-Jan-2010 (2 comments)

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.

In his al-Jazeera interview, the researcher claimed that, based on
Israeli archives, IDF troops plundered the books from the homes of
Palestinians expelled during the “Nakba” and handed them over to
authorities. The State proceeded to establish a library in Jaffa and
other towns for the books, he said.

‘Cultural massacre’

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 ... >>>

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Anonymous Observer

Akh Akh Gholi

by Anonymous Observer on Sat Jan 30, 2010 04:33 PM PST

Inghadr to ghoseyeh felistin ro mikhori yevaght degh nakoni maa ro bedoon-e shah gholam bezari?


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AsteroidX

How awful, and how touching that you care ...

by AsteroidX on Mon Feb 08, 2010 03:44 AM PST

You may be interested in the following article:

Book Burning

//www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2008/may2008/book-burning.shtml 

"Today, the heritage of the Nazi's and early Muslims' book burning became the political Islam with its shocking results in the last three decades in the Islamic world, especially in Iran and Afghanistan.

Recalling not only the book-burning of 1933 by the Nazis, but also the early invasion of Islam in Iran, the regime launched in 1980 a cultural revolution to alienate Iranians from their pre-Islamic great civilisation by islamo-arbising the whole Iranian culture. Following the cultural revolution, bands of Hezbollahis and Islamists attacked, destroyed and burnt libraries in Iran. Millions of books were destroyed, and thousands of allegedly readers of such books were imprisoned or executed.

Not only the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ministry of Islamic guidance and Culture now censors some of Iran's best contemporary writers and researchers, such as Sadegh Hedayat, Sadegh Choobak, Ebrahim Golestan, Gholamhossein Sa’aedi, Ahmad Kasravi, Ali Dashti, Ebrahim Poordavoud, Zabih Behrouz, and others, but even in the recent years, they removed parts and whole pieces of works by well-known poets such as Souzani Samarghandi, Omar Khayam, Molana Jalaledin Rumi, Nezami Ganjavi, Abid Zakani, Iradj Mirza, and even some lexicons from Ali Akbar Dehkhoda and Farhang Mo’in as non-Islamic.

        Like the Nazis in 1933, the Islamic Republic of Iran had also it's own version of book burning and censorship, as thousandsof titles of books are banned from publishing, as hundreds of thousands of books are destroyed by unfortunate publishers who have not been authorised of distributing the books.

The ruling ayatollahs are not solely aimed at stamping out ideas of freedom but for a more nefarious purpose and in a line with the early Muslim invaders: suppressing Persian ancient culture and civilisation."

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The long history of censorship

//www.beaconforfreedom.org/about_project/history.html

"Modern day Inquisition in Iran
Even though centuries and cultures apart, there are striking resemblance between the arguments and zealousness of the Inquisition of the Catholic Church and that of the Ministry of Islamic Guidance in the modern Islamic Republic of Iran. After a period of a liberalised climate for publishing following the Islamic revolution in 1979, the war against Iraq (1981) and the combat against opposition groups within the Islamic Republic gave the government opportunity to introduce strict censorship. When the war ended in 1988, censorship became monopolised by the traditional extremists, eager to purge the Iranian society of freedom-seekers and dissenters. The Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution (SCCR) issued in the spring of 1988 resolutions on limitations of publishing. With the aid of the revolutionary courts, offenders have regularly been charged with propaganda against the Islamic Republic and the desecration of public morals, often resulting in executions. Even though the people of Iran in two successive elections, the latest in 2001, have elected a liberal president, the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution holds the reins of power, and the revolutionary courts still continue to gag the press and punish editors and journalists."

 


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