NEW: “Palestinian liberation” art projects. Valentine’s Day notes featuring the slogan “From the River to the Sea.” A map of the Middle East with Israel wiped off of it. For Philadelphia’s public library system, these are examples of family-friendly programming for “children of all ages.”
That’s according to library materials reviewed by the Free Beacon and offered to local children during “Palestine Storytime” events held at local libraries in Philadelphia.
The Lovett Memorial Library hosted a June "Palestinian Storytime" event where children heard the picture book "A Map for Falasteen" read to them. The book states that, in 1948, Israeli soldiers "came with their tanks and guns" and "destroyed our villages and gave them new names." It also includes a large map that depicts "Falasteen" instead of Israel.
The Kingsessing Library, for instance, has advertised one storytime event on its website alongside a photo of a child wearing a headscarf that features an image of the Dome of the Rock and the Arabic phrase, "Jerusalem, we are coming," a slogan Hamas and Hezbollah use to call for the destruction of the Jewish state. The library advertises the event—scheduled for Aug. 9—as being for "children of all ages."
An event at the Moore Library last November, titled "Watermelons & Kefiyyehs: Protest Art of Palestine," involved "imagery used in Palestinian liberation struggles" and "protest art" featuring keffiyehs and other "resistance" symbols.
"Libraries are [viewed as] safe places where parents and grandparents can take their kids and the programming is safe as milk," ZOA Philadelphia executive director Steve Feldman told the Free Beacon. "[They] shouldn’t be used for programming that incites Jew-hatred and other forms of social engineering … They’re not indoctrination centers."
@nextphlmayor As you are doing, every decent person must condemn this behavior, ask why it has become acceptable, and get at the root of how and why someone would celebrate mass-murder and mas-rape plus abductions.
@NoahGRubin The problem with this is that Americans by and large bifurcate everything into "good" and "bad." If Hamas are "bad" then the other pal-arabs must by default be "good." Except that they are not. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PLO/PA, PFLP and others are no better than Hamas.
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Some of these faculty are not even tenured and they have full classes next semester.
End the double standard.
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