Andrea- Apparently, you are discussing demonization literature (such as the schoolbooks of the Palestinians).
I, on the other hand, have in mind books (and films, although I have not seen and do not know much about "Relentless," so I don't know where it fits in my own judgement) that may well not be to one's liking, that may actually disagree with how one sees things, whose very premise we may not like, but that are in no way part of an anti-semitic agenda or plot. If one does not make that distinction, then what of not only "The Merchant of Venice," but of just about all English literature, certainly that of the past. "Hans Brinker," also, and, as I have just been reminded in re-reading it, "Jane Eyre." (One line, I think.) If we preclude every piece of material that includes in any way any anti-semitism, we would have a very small library, or at least one that included only works by Jews -- and even that might preclude having works by the "wrong" Jews. Libraries _must_ have works like "Mein Kampf",however hateful. Ignorance is dangerous, especially that of our own history. And now that I think of it, some Jewish library had better be collecting the current hatred tracts and speeches of the Palestinians and of Muslim preachers, or we wouldn't know about or be able prove their existence. And it is selection policy we were discussing. Of course the Palestinians (at least as a whole) and much of Islam are our enemy at this point in history. But that was not the subject of what I wrote, or of what I thought we were discussing. I did not say that "these people" (_which_ people?) are "just like us Americans." I did not discuss the topic. Again, that is not what we, or at least I, were talking about. Facing reality is indeed what we must focus on. Exactly my point, I thought. ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
