Silencing Genocide, One Book at a Time

Silencing genocide, one book at a time

Waverley Library’s decision to remove Adam Johnson’s How to Sell a Genocide after complaints raises a question that goes far beyond one book, one library or one Sydney council: who decides which political arguments the public is permitted to view?The distress experienced by survivors of the Bondi Beach terror attack must be acknowledged and treated seriously but this cannot become a veto over material available to an entire community.Subscribe a…

How to Sell a Genocide – libraries are for difficult books too

A confronting display can be reconsidered. Removing a documented critique of the war on Gaza from a public library collection would be another matter entirely.