{"id":29324,"date":"2023-10-23T21:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T04:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29324"},"modified":"2023-10-23T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T04:29:30","slug":"the-great-book-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/the-great-book-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Great Book Robbery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Great Book Robbery - A Film by Benny Brunner\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/48141495?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/48141495\">The Great Book Robbery &#8211; A Film by Benny Brunner<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/salaamshalomvtjp\">Salaam Shalom<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Great Book Robbery &#8211; A Film by Benny Brunner &#8212; NOT YET RATED<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>11 years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/48141495#more_info\">More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the weeks of August 27 and September 3, Salaam Shalom: Report on Palestine\/Israel will air \u201cThe Great Book Robbery,\u201d a fim by Benny Brunner (it comes to us courtesy of the Al Jazeera\u2019s news magazine \u201cWitness\u201d). The film documents the theft of tens of thousands of Palestinian books and manuscripts by Jewish officials after ethnic cleansing operations by Israeli forces in 1948-49. 750,000 Palestinians became refugees during the war for Palestine and hundreds of their villages were destroyed. Their books and manuscripts\u2014labeled \u201cAbandoned Property\u201d\u2014were systematically looted by Jewish librarians and others who followed in the wake of conquering Jewish soldiers. Most were deposited in Israel\u2019s National Library. If you are interested in a detailed expose of this act of cultural genocide, please read \u201cOverdue Books: Returning Palestine\u2019s \u2018Abandoned Property\u2019 of 1948\u201d by Adalah-NY activist and school librarian Hannah Mermelstein. You can find it at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatbookrobbery.org\/overdue-books-returning-palestine%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cabandoned-property%E2%80%9D-1948-hannah-mermelstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thegreatbookrobbery.org\/overdue-books-returning-palestine%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cabandoned-property%E2%80%9D-1948-hannah-mermelstein<\/a>. This edition will also feature two testimonials by Jewish soldiers who served in the occupied territories, recorded by Breaking the Silence. Special thanks to Danny Weiss, our technical producer, Jamie Brooks, VTJP webmaster and Bill Coil, co-producer. You can watch the program on public access stations in Vermont on the days and times listed below, and you can stream it on VIMEO:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/48141495\">vimeo.com\/48141495<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Book Robbery &#8211; A Film by Benny Brunner from Salaam Shalom on Vimeo. The Great Book Robbery &#8211; A Film by Benny Brunner &#8212; NOT YET RATED 11 years ago More For the weeks of August 27 and September 3, Salaam Shalom: Report on Palestine\/Israel will air \u201cThe&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/the-great-book-robbery\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29325,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29324\/revisions\/29325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}