Anti-Israel slant

摘要

I am surprised that LJ would choose to highlight Elizabeth Hayford's "Israel-Palestine" roundup (LJ 10/15/07, p. 78ff.) by including only books by authors with a decidedly anti-Israel slant. Did Hayford find no 2007 titles to be "solid works" and "valuable additions to many libraries" that are written from an Israeli perspective? I became suspicious of the reviewer's bias when I saw she chose not to qualify her description of the period of the second Intifada as a time "when the Palestinian people began to fight for their rights." This connotes an image of Martin Luther King or Gandhi rather than the violent grass-roots movement made notable by frequent suicide attacks with the intent of maximizing Israeli civilian casualties....