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Love the library - but it doesn't love free speech. LAPL director John Szabo should resign for cancelling Palestinian Read Week and censoring the author of a CHILDREN'S BOOK ON GARDENING
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Love the library - but it doesn't love free speech. LAPL director John Szabo should resign for cancelling Palestinian Read Week and censoring the author of a CHILDREN'S BOOK ON GARDENING
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Free Censorship too! Can you please explain this? Why did you censor a Palestinian author for her CHILDREN'S BOOK on gardening? John Szabo owes Los Angeles his resignation
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February 5, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Free Censorship too! Can you please explain this? Why did you censor a Palestinian author for her CHILDREN'S BOOK on gardening? John Szabo owes Los Angeles his resignation
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What if the creator is Palestinian? Will you censor them like you did to Jenan Matari?
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
What if the creator is Palestinian? Will you censor them like you did to Jenan Matari?
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How about this book? Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden. You wouldn't let a Palestinian author read her work. Maybe work on yourselves first
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February 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
How about this book? Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden. You wouldn't let a Palestinian author read her work. Maybe work on yourselves first
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Wow. You can censor authors and still be named #1
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Wow. You can censor authors and still be named #1
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Keep it up fools - We're waiting for an explanation
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Keep it up fools - We're waiting for an explanation
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Unless your name is Jenan Matari - YOU CANCELLED AND CENSORED A PALESTINIAN AUTHOR
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Unless your name is Jenan Matari - YOU CANCELLED AND CENSORED A PALESTINIAN AUTHOR
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But don't celebrate Palestinians! A PUBLIC LIBRARY ENDORESED CENSORSHIP. You don't get to celebrate diversity when you leave an entire people out of the conversation
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
But don't celebrate Palestinians! A PUBLIC LIBRARY ENDORESED CENSORSHIP. You don't get to celebrate diversity when you leave an entire people out of the conversation
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You gave our brains a workout, when your leader John Szabo caved to Zionist bullies and CENSORED a Palestinian author. We're still waiting for an explanation
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
You gave our brains a workout, when your leader John Szabo caved to Zionist bullies and CENSORED a Palestinian author. We're still waiting for an explanation
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But censoring Palestinian authors DOES take extra energy and audacity.
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
But censoring Palestinian authors DOES take extra energy and audacity.
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Super cool!
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Super cool!
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John Szabo censored a Palestinian author - while you celebrate diversity and culture, you simultaneously punish others - our struggle is connected.
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
thelareporter.la
February 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
John Szabo censored a Palestinian author - while you celebrate diversity and culture, you simultaneously punish others - our struggle is connected.
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Black liberation is directly connected to Palestinian liberation. Your failure to understand intersectionality led directly to cancelling and censoring authors you don't agree with. FIRE JOHN SZABO
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LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Black liberation is directly connected to Palestinian liberation. Your failure to understand intersectionality led directly to cancelling and censoring authors you don't agree with. FIRE JOHN SZABO
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Thanks for sharing -- can you share why you cancelled a Palestinian author for daring to write a children's book about gardening? thelareporter.la/p/la-public-...
LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library
Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their tal...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Thanks for sharing -- can you share why you cancelled a Palestinian author for daring to write a children's book about gardening? thelareporter.la/p/la-public-...