• 'Threatened by books?': Israel condemned for arresting Palestinian book

    From NefeshBarYochai@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 27 23:23:49 2025
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    Thousands have taken to social media this week to condemn Israel after
    its authorities arrested the Palestinian owners of a historic occupied
    East Jerusalem bookshop for "inciting terrorism" with Palestinian
    literature, using a children's colouring book as proposed evidence.

    Educational Bookshop is a decades-old bookstore chain respected by
    locals and internationals alike, with both Arabic and English-language locations. The Muna family have become well-known figures in the local Palestinian community and with diplomats, academics and writers who
    have visited occupied East Jerusalem.

    On Sunday, Israeli plain-clothed agents raided two of its three
    branches. Witnesses told Middle East Eye that the agents entered
    around 3pm as if they were regular customers. After five minutes, they
    suddenly produced a search warrant and ordered customers to leave.

    After about 90 minutes, the Israelis left after detaining the shops’
    owners, Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad. Both have been taken into
    custody. Many of their books were taken away with them.

    Witnesses said the Munas were told they were accused of “disorderly
    conduct”. However, MEE has been told that the search warrants
    specified "terrorist" offences.

    The official X account of the Israeli police posted a picture of a
    children's colouring book, titled From the River to the Sea, as
    supposed evidence of the bookshop containing material "containing
    incitement and support for terrorism".

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/threatened-books-hundreds-condemn-israel-arrest-palestinian-bookshop-owners

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to NefeshBarYochai on Sat Mar 1 17:52:32 2025
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    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:23:49 -0800, NefeshBarYochai wrote:

    Thousands have taken to social media this week to condemn Israel after
    its authorities arrested the Palestinian owners of a historic occupied
    East Jerusalem bookshop for "inciting terrorism" with Palestinian
    literature, using a children's colouring book as proposed evidence.

    Educational Bookshop is a decades-old bookstore chain respected by
    locals and internationals alike, with both Arabic and English-language locations. The Muna family have become well-known figures in the local Palestinian community and with diplomats, academics and writers who
    have visited occupied East Jerusalem.

    On Sunday, Israeli plain-clothed agents raided two of its three
    branches. Witnesses told Middle East Eye that the agents entered
    around 3pm as if they were regular customers. After five minutes, they suddenly produced a search warrant and ordered customers to leave.

    After about 90 minutes, the Israelis left after detaining the shops´
    owners, Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad. Both have been taken into
    custody. Many of their books were taken away with them.

    Witnesses said the Munas were told they were accused of "disorderly
    conduct". However, MEE has been told that the search warrants
    specified "terrorist" offences.

    The official X account of the Israeli police posted a picture of a
    children's colouring book, titled From the River to the Sea, as
    supposed evidence of the bookshop containing material "containing
    incitement and support for terrorism".

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/threatened-books-hundreds-condemn-israel-arrest-palestinian-bookshop-owners

    This is all too typical Jewish anti-intellectualism, to charge
    coloring books to be a terrorist agent of literature.
    Will the Banned Books Controversy adopt this book
    in defense of book readers, or is this piece of violent
    censorship to be ignored because we are told in
    America that Jews are always right?

    You see this isn't really a case of hardcore pornography
    that Jewish activists are so insistent that children be
    exposed to, but a book rendered a political book because Jews
    attacked it, like thousands of other books, not just
    coloring books.

    The listing of it is still at Amazon, through
    third parties, looks like a lot of Amazon books shortly
    before banning:

    https://www.amazon.com/River-Sea-Colouring-Book/dp/0796148333/

    If Amazon soon bans this book, it will delete
    anything about the book, including all comments,
    without warning to gaslight customers into thinking
    the book doesn't exist, like untold thousands of
    other books banned for no other reason than Jews
    demanded it. Amazon has had Jewish management for
    years, which explains the free ride against criticism
    that non-Jewish companies get. Jews have violated
    the law in colluding with each other against whites
    to keep the publishing industry in Jewish hands only.

    Speaking of South Africa, Apartheid felt it very
    important to outlaw books perceived as anti-semitic,
    showing how privileged Jews were in a "white"
    regime, and all Jews blame only non-Jews for
    Jewish crimes.

    Another banned book is The Secret Relationship Between
    Blacks And Jews by The Nation oF Islam which has been banned
    by all chief booksellers and most schools for years,
    certainly including Amazon. It describes Jewish
    slaveowners and their victims and implies that there
    is a contradiction in the shibboleth we of the West
    are forced to recite, that Jews are always good and
    their victims are always wrong and deserve to die.

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