Fahrenheit 451 ... the day is coming!
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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-te
xtbook-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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-after-complaints-maps-are-anti-israel
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[1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/michael-arria
[2] http://alternet.org
[3]
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/08/mcgraw-hill-education-w
ithdraws-textbook-maps-viewed-anti-israel
[4]
http://www.thetower.org/3027ez-mcgraw-hill-publishes-college-textbook-
with-mendacious-anti-israel-maps/
[5] http://www.amazon.com/Medium-Blue-The-Politics-MSNBC/dp/0989763730
[6] mailto:corrections@xxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=Typo on McGraw-Hill ;
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[7] http://www.alternet.org/
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