The Internet Archive digital library was forced to withdraw from its “controlled digital loan” offer more than 500,000 books that it had legally acquired and digitized.

A self-censorship that many researchers, students, Wikipedians and readers deplore throughout the world.

Ask publishers to restore access to the 500,000 books they’ve caused to be removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library.
Let Readers Read | Internet Archive Blogs – https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

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🇵🇸 The Library and the Massacre: A Novelist's Testimony on the Destruction of Libraries in the Gaza Strip | Yousri al-Ghoul, Institute for Palestine Studies

While Palestinians had anticipated restrictions on #food, #fuel, and #travel, few realized the occupation would also besiege their minds.

Books were imprisoned, their circulation banned, and their entry blocked.

Then the massacre came, extinguishing the very dream of life itself – beyond the dreams of #writing or #painting. The #occupation deliberately targeted human existence, not just Palestinian identities, committing acts of genocide unparalleled in modern history.

Even stones and trees were razed, leaving the people of Gaza grappling with a single, desperate concern: preserving their lives and families. But, even this modest aspiration became an impossible dream under the relentless shadow of planes raining barrel bombs on fragile homes in overcrowded #RefugeeCamps.

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🇵🇸How mainstream media bias contributed to Israel’s genocide in Gaza | Mondoweiss

Robin Andersen's indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media's role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Even those of us who closely followed U.S. mainstream media bias in its coverage of Israel’s murderous war on Palestinians since October 7, 2023 will find that The Complicit Lens, a superb, comprehensive new book, is indispensable. Author Robin Andersen is a veteran expert in media studies. Her success is two-fold. First, she exhaustively chronicles the day-by-day twistings, distortions and omissions in the New York Times, CNN and the rest. She uses an impressive, broad range of sources (including this site), and documents them in an astonishing 942 footnotes.

THE COMPLICIT LENS
US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
by Robin Anderson
310 pp. OR Books $23


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