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Anti-Israel Bias

New York (JTA) — A Jewish
librarian has charged the
American Library Associ-
ation with anti-Israel bias in
planning a session on Israeli
censorship for its annual
convention next month.
The panel discussion,
titled "Israeli Censorship:
There and Here," is one of
more than 2,000 offered at
the June 24-July 1 New
Orleans convention, which
18,000 librarians from
around the country are ex-
pected to attend.
According to the Jewish
librarian, who asked not to
be named for fear of losing
her job, the discussion will
be no more than an excuse to
bash Israel.
The librarian, from the
Atlantic City, N.J., area,
said that anti-Israel senti-
ment within the
50,000-member ALA has
been growing over the past
few years.
"This unabashed hostility
toward Israel is simply the
culmination of many seasons
of persistent pressure and
quiet agitation," she said.
There has been "a long
process" within the ALA "to
single Israel out gradually,"
she said. "The trend with
Israel is to have the lang-
uage go stronger and
stronger.
"Once they were able to
single out Israel for censure,
they no longer had to
disguise their Israel-bashing
session as a 'debate,' " she
said.
In 1991 the ALA con-
ference hosted a program
titled "Israeli Censorship:
the Occupation and Library
Closings."
"They claimed they
couldn't find anyone to take
the Israeli side, so it was all
pro-Palestinian," she said.
A resolution protesting
Israeli censorship was also
put forward that year for
consideration and was the
"most hotly debated resolu-
tion," according to an ac-
count in the September 1991
issue of the ALA's magazine,
American Libraries.
The presenter of the
resolution, Anne Haley,
mocked the "barrage of ob-
jections she knew would be
raised" by wearing a
baseball catcher's mitt and
chest guard to the podium.
At the 1992 convention,
according to the July/August
1992 issue of American
Libraries magazine, "Israel

got reprimanded when the
council passed a resolution
calling for the government of
Israel to end all censorship
and human rights violations
in the Occupied West Bank
and Gaza, and in Israel
itself.
"An attempt at last year's
conference (1991) to chide
Israel turned into a resolu-
tion protesting censorship in
the entire Middle East in-
stead. But this year, a
number of councillors
argued successfully that
there was no reason not to
single Israel out," the maga-
zine account said.
A resolution protesting
Israel's deportation of a Pa-
lestinian librarian, Omar al-
Safi, was also passed by the
council, which is the 175-
member policy-making body
of the ALA.
According to ALA officials,
the organization has occa-
sionally been critical of
other governments for in-
hibiting access to informa-
tion and has spoken out on

The session on
Israeli censorship
will be the only
one focusing on a
single government
this year.

behalf of individual
librarians and writers who
were imprisoned.
"We rarely address
governments, but because so
many issues regarding
access to information are
international, we address
those," said Peggy Sullivan,
executive director of the
ALA.
The session on Israeli cen-
sorship will be the only one
focusing on a single govern-
ment this year, she said.
Ms. Sullivan said that
describing it as Israel
bashing "is a strong state-
ment to make.
"The organizers' position
is anti-Israeli, and the focus
of it will be negative," she
said. "By publicizing it wide-
ly, they are bringing it to the
attention of people who do
not agree. We believe people
should have access to the in-
formation about these
issues."
Resolutions have been
passed by the ALA in years
past condemning Romania,

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