Month: March 2016

Het volgende artikel van Lawrence Davidson komt van de Information Clearing House webpagina. Hierin wordt verteld over het in de VS uit de markt halen van een studieboek betreffende Palestina en de etnische zuivering van Palestijnse gebieden in de periode 1946 – 2000. Vooral een geografische kaart schijnt de zionisten te steken, zij stellen simpel dat het in 1967 bezette gebied, een ondeelbaar geheel was, is en zal zijn van Israël……… U kunt onder het artikel klikken voor een vertaling, al neemt dat we enige tijd in beslag.

Israel
– Map Censorship

By
Lawrence Davidson

March
21, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
–  What
is the difference between a textbook publisher giving into pressure
from Christian fundamentalists seeking to censor the teaching of
evolution, and a publisher giving in to Zionists seeking to censor
awareness of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Neither phenomenon is
a matter of opinion or perspective. One act of censorship denies
facts established by scientific research. The other denies the
documented violation of international law (for instance, the Fourth
Geneva Convention) and multiple UN resolutions. So the answer to the
question just asked is – there is no difference. 

In
early March 2016 executives at McGraw-Hill took the extreme step of
withdrawing from the market a published text, Global Politics:
Engaging a Complex World, and then proceeded to destroy all the
remaining books held in inventory. (Did they burn them?) Global
Politics, which had been on the market since 2012, was a text
designed by its authors to “offer students a number of lenses
through which to view the world around them.” Why did McGraw-Hill
do this?

Apparently
the book was obliterated (this seems to be an accurate description of
the publisher’s actions) because, like a biology text that
describes the established facts of evolution, Global Politics offered
a “lens to view the world” that was judged blasphemous by a
powerful, influential and ideologically driven element of the
community. Of course, that is not how McGraw-Hill rationalized
its action. Instead, the publisher claimed that a serious inaccuracy
in the text was belatedly discovered. This took the form of a series
of four maps that show “Palestinian loss of land from 1946 to
2000.” The maps are the first set which can be seen at the
following
link: http://www.thetower.org/3027ez-mcgraw-hill-publishes-college-textbook-with-mendacious-anti-israel-maps/

The
maps in question are not new or novel. Nor are they historically
inaccurate, despite Zionists’ claims to the contrary. They can be
seen individually and in different forms on websites of the BBC and
Mondoweiss and are published in a number of history books, such as
Mark Tessler’s well-received A History of the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict. Perhaps what the Zionists can’t abide is lining up the
maps together in chronological order.

In
truth, the objections reported to have been used by those who
pressured McGraw-Hill are historically perverse – the sort of
grasping at straws that reflects a biased and strained rewriting of
history. For instance, an objection was made to the labeling of
public land in pre-1948 Palestine as “Palestinian.” Why? Because
the Zionist claim is that Palestine before 1948 was a British mandate
and so the land was British and not Palestinian. As their argument
goes, “no one called the Arabs [of this area] Palestinians.” Of
course, prior to 1948, no one called the East European Jews pouring
in at this time “Israelis.” Further, according to those taking
these maps to task, the West Bank at this time was controlled by
Jordan and so it too was not Palestinian. Obviously, no one brought
up the fact that in September of 1922 the British had divided
Palestine in two in order to artificially create what is now Jordan.
The period after World War I was one of territorial transition,
however, in Palestine, the one constant was the persistent presence
of the Arab Palestinians.

The
Zionists offered many other dubious objections to the maps, which
seem to have sent the publisher into something of a panic. It would
certainly appear that no one at McGraw-Hill knew enough relevant
history to make an accurate judgment on the complaints.

Part
II – Running Scared

McGraw-Hill’s
response was to “immediately initiate an academic review,” which
“determined that the maps in question “did not meet our academic
standards.” Who carried out the review? Well, McGraw-Hill
won’t say, but insists those who did so were “independent
academics.” Just what are McGraw-Hill’s “academic
standards”? Well, those haven’t been articulated either. The
publisher’s reluctance to elaborate its claims makes their actions
suspicious at best. 

As
Rania Khalek noted in an 11 March 2016 article on the incident in
Electronic Intifada, these particular maps, showing the loss of
Palestinian land over decades of Israeli expansion, “have the
ability to cut through Israeli propaganda that portrays Palestinian
anger and violence as rooted in religious intolerance and irrational
hatred rather than a natural reaction to Israel’s colonial
expansionism, land theft and ethnic cleansing, all of which continue
today.” This gives insight into the strenuous efforts made by
Zionists to keep the sequenced maps away from any mass market
distribution. As it is, they seem to have overlooked this textbook
source for some four years. However, once they spotted it, and began
“flooding” McGraw-Hill with complaints from “multiple sources,”
it took the publisher only about a week to suspend sales of the book.
 

The
next obvious question is why didn’t McGraw-Hill move to change the
maps or just remove them? Why destroy the entire inventory? The
extreme nature of the publisher’s response remains unexplained but
may stand as a testimony to the fact that the Zionist lobby has the
same power within the corporate ranks of this textbook publisher as
the anti-evolution fundamentalists have over most biology textbooks. 

Part
III – The Zionists’ Maps

The
Zionists who made the claim that the Global Politics maps are
“mendacious” do so from a starting assumption that all the land
from the Suez Canal to Golan Heights and Jordan River has always been
Hebrew-Israeli. On this basis they posit their own maps to make the
claim that modern Israel, at least since 1967 and “in the pursuit
of peace,” has voluntarily relinquished land rather than illegally
taken it. These maps are the second set seen
at http://www.thetower.org/3027ez-mcgraw-hill-publishes-college-textbook-with-mendacious-anti-israel-maps/

It
is significant that the Zionist maps begin in 1967, a year of major
Israeli expansion through conquest. And, of course, the only land
concession of any consequence since then is the Sinai Desert. The
Zionist cartographical suggestion that Israel has given up Gaza and
West Bank land is just a sleight of hand, given Israel’s use of
Gaza as a prison colony and continued military control of every inch
of the West Bank.

Finally,
it is important to note that Israeli school maps are often pure
propaganda. For instance, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently
carried a story about a map used to teach seventh graders about the
country’s geography. The map omits the “green line,” which is
recognized internationally as Israel’s eastern border, as well as
the majority of the nation’s Arab-Israeli communities. Maybe the
Israeli Ministry of Education used McGraw-Hill’s “academic
standards” to create this map.

Part
IV – Conclusion

Within
academia there is the belief that textbooks are not to be subject to
ideological censorship. This is a rather naive, but important, ideal.
If such texts cannot maintain this level of integrity, the entire
educational exercise becomes open to propaganda. Unless McGraw-Hill
becomes transparent about its “independent academic review” and
offers an explanation as to why it went to the extreme of destroying
its inventory of Global Politics, one can only assume that the
publisher has no objection to censoring its products in the face of
pressure from an ideologically driven group. No doubt the motivation
here is fear of controversy and subsequent market losses. In the
absence of substantiating information, the whole story of an
independent review and academic standards must be dismissed as a
cover-up.

The
sad truth is that the suborning of textbooks addressing culturally
sensitive subjects has become a standard practice. Thus, the process
of education is indeed threatened by incessant propaganda. This
includes the culture war that swirls around American biology
textbooks. It also includes the powerful Zionist drive to literally
wipe the Palestinians off the map.

Lawrence
Davidson is a retired professor of history from West Chester
University in West Chester PA. His academic research focused on the
history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He taught
courses in Middle East history, the history of science and modern
European intellectual history.

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Ik ben overigens benieuwd, of een dergelijke geografische kaart in Nederlandse lesboeken is te vinden. De vraag stellen…….. In Nederland hebben we geen druk van zionisten nodig, om zionistisch onwelgevallige teksten of kaarten uit lesboeken of de reguliere pers te houden, daar zijn ‘we’ zelf ‘mans’ genoeg voor en zelfcensuur is hier een ‘specialiteit…………’

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