ACLU accuses library of censorship for canceling Israeli-Palestinian film

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Posted by Jesse Tinsley March 13, 2008 00:36AM
Categories: Breaking News

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is charging the Cleveland-Heights-University Heights Public Library with censorship for canceling a film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict scheduled for Wednesday night.

Some critics of the film said it was biased against the Jewish state and recommended a more balanced program in the library's three-part series on the Middle East conflict.

"The cancellation of this event is blatant and shameful censorship of particular views," ACLU legal director Jeffrey Gamso said in a letter to the library. "Libraries should be a place where members of the public congregate and exchange ideas with one another."...


The film, "Searching for Peace in the Middle East," was to be followed by a panel discussion by members of the Arab, Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities at the library's Lee Road branch...