Regarding Encyclopedia of Race and Racism : AJC Calls on Publisher to Retract Zionism Chapter in Encyclopedia

Regarding Encyclopedia of Race and Racism : AJC Calls on Publisher to Retract Zionism Chapter in Encyclopediahttp://www.cengage.com/contact/esales@cengage.com

Dear Sirs,

I have received a note-an email actually- celebrating the fact that the newly published Encyclopedia of Race and Racism http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=e&titleCode=&type=4&id=233224 " is including "zionism " in the section that talks about racism in a clear understanding that zionism is racism. After all the UN has a resolution that equates zionism with rasicm http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0a2a053971ccb56885256cef0073c6d4/761c1063530766a7052566a2005b74d1!OpenDocument ...

Or just look what the zionist are doing to the Palestinians"
I HOPE HOPE HOPE that this news is true- and that your encyclopedia actually dares state the obvious... Zionism really is racism- and racism really is wrong...
And in any case, knowing that news and rumors both spread fast, I am guessing you will be slammed by Zionist propagandists- as you can see they already have an alert out AJC Calls on Publisher to Retract Zionism Chapter in Encyclopedia ... and you might regret daring to publish the facts... or be reluctant to do so in the future.

Please do not let hate mongers and trouble makers convince you to support, protect, empower or excuse Zionism... please notice the very real plight of the Palestinians... AND PLEASE know that many people are grateful that you dared state the obvious... if you did... and if you didn't please know that you should. "The world is under the false impression that the settlers are a few unruly fanatics in an otherwise civilized society. But it is naive to think that the settlers are acting against the will of the state of Israel. The truth of the matter is that the settlers are a key tool of the Israeli state and army used to terrorize and torment the Palestinians." License to kill Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ahram Weekly http://imeu.net/news/article0014474.shtml

"Historically, the Zionist state has been in the forefront of the efforts to suppress its Palestinian citizens, through a complex legal framework that circumspectly discriminates against them, but allows for Israel to sustain a "democratic" facade. One example of state discrimination is Israel's policy of expropriating land from Palestinians and reserving it for "the Jewish people in perpetuity" and allowing the Jewish National Fund to administer these properties. This is matched by a separate, but related, policy of house demolitions linked to severe restriction on building permits that are designed to contain Palestinian urban growth within Israel. Therefore, the state has acted as a guarantor of the fragile and often contradictory relationship between democratic values and Zionist's racial doctrine." Israel's democratic facade erodes http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9891.shtml

" In 1948, the international community felt a deep sense of responsibility for the mass dispossession, ethnic cleansing and the Zionist transfer policy that began then. United Nations Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, who was later assassinated by a Zionist terrorist hit squad, stated: "It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine" (UN Doc Al 648, 1948). This remains true today as any Jew, regardless of national origin, can gain automatic citizenship while Palestinian Arabs are denied their right to return to their own homeland." The Right To Return, a Basic Right Still Denied: Al-Awda
"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world" The Golden Rule: Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You..

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab