Several weeks ago I posted on Hasafran my inability to access the Federal Depository Library from Israel. When I and many others in Israel tried to reach the site (http://www.fdlp.gov/), we were greeted with the statement: 403: Access Forbidden Your location (IL) has been blacklisted. Following some helpful suggestions from Anna Levia at Stamford and Pearl Berger at YU, I tried to determine whether FDLP is available outside the US.
Through friends, I was able to determine that it IS accessible from the UK and Canada. I have written to the GPO contact email, my senator and congressman, and the Superintendent of Documents asking whether this blocking of Israel is intentional, an oversight or a hack. To date, I have not received an answer from anyone. Given the current environment of BDS, I find this blacklisting of Israel on a US government site very troubling. Therefore, I’m calling on AJL as an organization to contact the Superintendent of Documents, Mary Alice Baish, ([email protected]) and request a response to this problem. I don’t think this is an issue we can ignore. Diane Romm
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