Israel Vanishing from Scotland Libraries It does not matter what ideas are contained in these books, it is the bare fact of their origin which is enough for them to be banned. One of Scotland’s councils has just implemented a boycott of Israel after comparing the country to apartheid South Africa. The Clackmannanshire Council declared it would resist all economic and political support for Israel in order to “end suffering in Palestine”. In Scotland, once known as the only European country which has no history of state persecution of Jews, a region is officially dedicated to the eradication of the Jewish State as a malevolent, “settler” and foreign entity. Last year the Scottish University of Dundee banned water from Eden Springs on the campus, because – it claimed - “it steals water from the Salukia spring in the occupied Syrian Golan, where it is bottled in the illegal Israeli settlement of Katzrin”. Another Scottish provincial council near Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire, in 2011 probibited the purchase of English translations of Israeli books and the distribution of these books in public libraries throughout the council’s jurisdiction. One’s memory went back to the German spring of 1933, when students, professors and librarians worked on a list of [...]
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