* Was the above-named Khader Hamide ordered deported by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1999 because of his terrorist activities? The answer is yes.

* Did the ALA Council pass anti-Israel resolutions in 1984, 1992, and 2002? The answer is yes.

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* Did the SRRT also try to get the ALA Council to pass a condemnation of Israel in 1998? The answer is yes.

* Has any nation other than Israel been condemned and vilified by the ALA Council? The answer is no.

* Is the ALA a tax-exempt organization whose conventions are, in part, underwritten by taxpayer money? The answer is yes.

* Has the ALA Council voted in favor of a new policy which will cut in half the quorum needed to pass resolutions, thereby making it easier for it to churn out new anti-Israel resolutions in the future? The answer is yes.

* Have those within the ALA who’ve been pushing condemnation of Israel for so many years also been sending the anti-Israel resolutions to the PLO, the UN, the U.S. State Department, foreign governments, and other national and international entities, expressly to maximize the damage to the Jewish state? The answer is yes.

* Does the ALA website link to a multitude of articles calling for the obliteration of the Jewish state? The answer is yes.

* Could I find any pro-Israel literature linked to the ALA website? Despite my long and repeated search attempts, none could be found.

* In June of 2002, was an effort made by members of the SRRT to get the ALA Council to establish a policy of getting librarians to give priority to the acquisition of materials that emphasize the causes of terrorism (i.e. a policy that would blame the victims of terrorists)? The answer is yes.

* In June of 2002, did the ALA Council vote to send an ”investigative” group to the territories, and might that group endanger innocent Israeli lives? The answer is yes.

* Has the ALA totally ignored the pervasive presence of materials that promote Holocaust denial, blood libels, glorification of Hitler — and which advocate murder, ethnic cleansing, jihad, and genocide against Jews (and sometimes Christians) — in the libraries and ”cultural” centers controlled by Arafat’s thugs? The answer is yes.

* Has Doctors Opposed to Child Sacrifice (DOCS), an organization of hundreds of pediatricians, condemned the literature that prevails in areas ruled by Arafat’s dictatorship as a form of ”societal child abuse”? The answer is yes.

* Has Mothers Against Teaching Children to Kill and Hate (M.A.T.C.K.H.) also condemned those same materials? The answer is yes.

* Do both the June 2002 ALA Council and ALA-SRRT anti-Israel resolutions say that the ALA considers the same hate-inspiring material condemned by DOCS and M.A.T.C.K.H. to be ”…of great value to the world”? The answer is yes.

* Does the tax-exempt and partially tax-supported American Library Association actively participate in international politics? The answer is yes.

* Have the Anti-Defamation League, the Israel Association of Libraries and Information Centers (ASMI), the Association of Jewish Libraries, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), and Americans for a Safe Israel all condemned the American Library Association’s anti-Israel activities? The answer is yes.

* Will personal attacks against N. Leonard Tolkan deter him from further exposing the ALA’s anti-Israel bias? Will those attacks succeed in getting impartial people to ignore the above facts? The answer to both questions is no.

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