My my my. Aren't we the brave little publishing House!
McGraw-Hill helps change history by bending to the whims of today's
Israeli an Expansionists.
There once was a time when we could browse the back stacks at the
local library and compare views from different periods of time. No
longer! Now we simply rewrite history to conform with current values.
This reminds me of the big push some years back to take Mark Twain's
Huckleberry Finn off the libraries shelves because it had the word,
Nigger in it.
I was never certain if this effort was because some folks found the
word offensive, or if they wanted to pretend that we never used such
language. Makes me wonder what these folks think of the words being
published today.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/11/16, S. Kashdan <skashdan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
McGraw-Hill Destroys Textbook After Complaints That Maps Are Anti-Israel
By Michael Arria [1]
AlterNet [2], March 10, 2016
http://www.alternet.org/print/grayzone-project/mcgraw-hill-destroys-textbook-after-complaints-maps-are-anti-israel
Inside Higher Ed reports [3] that the educational publishing company
McGraw-Hill is withdrawing and destroying all copies of a textbook after
complaints that it contained maps that were anti-Israel.
The book, Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World, had a series of maps
that documented the Palestinian loss of land that occurred between 1946 and
2000. A number of Israel supporters criticized the maps, insisting that
they're based on anti-Israel propaganda, as in this blog post. [4] The post
claims that all land given up by Israel has been given in the "pursuit of
peace."[Israel] has offered a great deal more for peace with the
Palestinians," reads the post, "The book could have gone into why they
continuously reject these peace offers...but it chose not to. The textbook
authors have taken a false narrative and are teaching it to students across
the nation."
Insider Higher Ed ran a statement from Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for
McGraw-Hill Education. "As soon as we learned about the concerns with it, we
placed sales of the book on hold and immediately initiated an academic
review," said Mathis, "The review determined that the map did not meet our
academic standards. We have informed the authors and we are no longer
selling the book. All existing inventory will be destroyed. We apologize and
will refund payment to anyone who returns the book."
The map used in the book can be seen below.
Michael Arria is an associate editor at AlterNet and the author of Medium
Blue: The Politics of MSNBC [5]. Follow @MichaelArria on Twitter.
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[5] http://www.amazon.com/Medium-Blue-The-Politics-MSNBC/dp/0989763730
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