Who Are the Book Banners: Librarians September 23-29 is the ominously and inaccurately named Banned Books Week established by the book-banning American Library Association (ALA) to suggest that book banning is prevalent in America and very scary. Although the ALA named it Banned Books Week, it acknowledged in the “ ” section of the Banned Books Week website that it’s not really about books that have been banned à la or even asked to be banned. It’s centrally about books that have been challenged, which is a horse of an entirely different and far less dark color. A book is challenged when the a ..read more

Twitter Censorship Enables Harm; Librarians Use Heckler's Veto for Censorship SafeLibraries is shadow banned at Twitter as a direct result of librarians using the heckler's veto to silence me for exposing the harms of the [ALA].  They publicly and falsely attack me and call for other librarians to block me on Twitter.  Perhaps hundreds do.  The result is Twitter algorithms have completely silenced me unless someone goes directly to my account.  I'm shadow banned. There is no way for me to explain to Twitter that I have been the victim of a concerted censorship effort by lib ..read more

Would you allow your public librarians to attend events where people from the United Arab Emirates were intentionally excluded but everyone else was invited?  Of course not.  The American Library Association [ALA] attends such an event.  Only it's Israelis who are excluded.  That's antisemitism and ALA attends that event yearly, so ALA is an antisemitic organization—until it stops supporting hate. Sharjah International Book Fair in UAE excludes anyone from Israel ALA attends this antisemitic event yearly —that's antisemitism.  ALA does this despite years of criticism a ..read more