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Sunday, 22 May 2011

An Open Letter to West Dunbartonshire Council




Dear West Dunbartonshire Council
 
I am writing to you to gain an understanding on your newfound repulsion to books published in Israel as it has left me confused and convinced I must have misunderstood. You have called for a motion to remove all books in your libraries published in Israel?

Have you actually thought this through?

Does this include Druze, Bedouin, Christian, Israeli Arabs, Baha’i, Sudanese Muslims and African refugee authors who are citizens of Israel? Palestinian authors?

Surely you can’t just mean......Jewish authors can you?

Oh this IS what you mean?
I see. 

We have been here before not too far back in history haven’t we?

This may be a little difficult for you to administer though? I suppose as you may be unfamiliar with obscure Jewish names that you may need to check that the author is indeed Jewish? Do you have the software available to do these checks on “is this author Jewish?” 

If not don’t worry too much as I know that the Nazi’s had a most efficient system for checking on the Jewishness of anything and anyone back when “software” merely referred to a man’s impotence. So with the right dedication, it can indeed be done. The Nazi’s did a sterling job of making their country and most of Europe Judenfrei just like you want to make your libraries Judenfrei so you’re in good company and definitely on the right track. One has to start somewhere and a library is as good a place as any. 

You could even appoint a guard to patrol around the library and his snarling trained Alsatian to sniff out any Jewish books written in Israel which may have slipped through the net and polluted the glorious and proud shelves of the Judenfrei library in West Dumbartonshire.

What is it about Jewish books that you find offensive? We are talking about an extremely wide spectrum here. There are some major acclaimed “mind expanding” books written by Jews in Israel which you wish to deprive your library members from. Why? On what grounds are you calling for this illegal and racist policy to have your libraries Judenfrei?

I look forward to your explanations behind your planned racist policy and your logistical plan on how you will ensure that West Dumbartonshire will be able to issue a Guarantee of Purity certificate that their library is indeed Judenfrei.

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