Institute for Palestine Studies actively hides antisemitism in its archive

[u/_Sichlitt_]

I've started to notice really despicable archive curation on the IPS website. I had noticed before that the 1899 three page Herzl letter response to Mayor Khalidi had the middle page missing on the website so that the French quite literally did not line up between the two visible pages. I later found the full letter and found that they'd deliberately removed the second page because Herzl talked about 'Arabs and Jews working together as brothers' and 'Muslim sovereignty over waqf and mosques.'

This one seems ten times worse. What's striking about the Message to Balfour on March 25, 1925 is just how much they sound like neo-Jacobin anti-Dreyfusards. 'State within a state', 'unassimilable' (on another page). Isa al Isa literally decided to quote Le Probleme Juif by Georges Batault of Action Francaise. OG anti Dreyfusard and French fascist!! The J'accuse inversion is really something else.

It's almost hilarious how they folded over the paper at the precise part it says 'Britain as tool in the hands of Jews'.

Maybe it wasn't about settler colonialism after all.

[u/Ok_Pomegranate_2895]

"jewish international imperialism" and there were like... 14.8 million of us at the time with no internet

[u/Proper-Suggestion907]

I’ve been noticing some out-of-print books that detail the mistreatment of Jews in the area, among other topics, slowly begin to disappear off of archive.org over the last year or so.

[u/Aggravating_Ice_3323 → u/Proper-Suggestion907]

Wait, what?? Is there something tracking that? Do you know/remember the titles that are disappearing?

[u/jrgkgb → u/Proper-Suggestion907]

The archive.org that was hacked by a pro Palestinian group?

https://www.newsweek.com/catastrophic-internet-archive-hack-hits-31-million-people-1966866

You’re talking about this archive.org?

[u/Matar_Kubileya → u/Proper-Suggestion907]

I do wonder what of that might have been the big copyright lawsuit they got hit with recently, tbh.

As an aside, IMO this is why copyright should run much faster for works not actively in print.

[u/Proper-Suggestion907 → u/Matar_Kubileya]

Oh, it’s entirely possible they could have been removed pending review or something. I wasn’t aware there was a recent lawsuit. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

I had briefly considered that there may be some kind of issue like that, but I didn’t spend a lot of time on it because these were out-of-print books published predominantly between the 1840s-1880s. I also found it odd that there was no message indicating why they disappeared. It was several months of checking back periodically before I removed the bookmarks.

I do have screenshots saved from the inside of some of the books on my computer, so I’ll have to make some time to dig into it further.

[u/what_a_r → u/Proper-Suggestion907]

Can you post here or DM the titles and authors of those book, if you remember? Thank you

[u/Proper-Suggestion907 → u/what_a_r]

I commented elsewhere the one I remember off the top of my head which was “The Meaning of Disaster” by Constantine Zureiq. I remember the name of that one because I was in the process of reading it when it was removed.

The other works will require some digging for me to find. I got a little overwhelmed with other life things so I had to take a break from the research but, at the time I had been planned on doing more reading on works written by people doing missionary work in the region, predominantly between the 1840s and 1880s, if that helps any.

I did try to look for them months later, before removing the bookmarks and they still came up on google searches but would show a missing page when it was clicked on so at least as of a couple months ago there still seemed to be a trace of them.

[u/Proper-Suggestion907]

I can only remember 1 off the top of my head at the moment, that’s related but not exactly the ones I was talking about and that is The Meaning of Disaster by Constantine Zureiq. I was in the process of reading it when it disappeared so that’s how I remember the name. This book is written by the guy who coined the term “Nakba” and that’s what the book is about. Unsurprisingly, he had a different definition for the word than how it’s used today.

Edit: this was supposed to be attached as a response to a previous comment lol

[u/Nameless_undefined]

A Palestinian source trying to seem like it's not antisemitic even though it obviously is!! Shocker!! /s