114 - The Great Book Robbery (2012)

We’re watching a documentary about Palestine! Libraries and museums are implicated in settler-colonialism and we’re gonna talk about it!

Media mentioned

Film: The Great Book Robbery: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2012/5/24/the-great-book-robbery 

Reddit Question: https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/17w0bu8/other_trans_library_directors/

Salvage or Plunder? Israel's "Collection" of Private Palestinian Libraries in West Jerusalem: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/42473 

Overdue Books Paper: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78440#:~:text=At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20the,other%2C%20still%20in%20historic%20Palestine. 

Overdue Books Zine: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Overdue-Books-AP-zine.pdf 

Antiquities Trafficking: https://2017-2021.state.gov/tackling-illicit-trafficking-of-antiquities-and-its-ties-to-terrorist-financing/ 

Hobby Lobby’s Hammurabi Robbing Hobby: Power and Appropriation at the Museum of the Bible: https://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/article/view/39322 

Other stuff related

USPS General Delivery: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-General-Delivery 

Librarians with Palestine Readings and Resources: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/readings-and-resources/ 

Land Grab Universities: https://www.landgrabu.org/

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