cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16956532
Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with Jewish themes.
In Mission, the long list of books on the chopping block includes a recent illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary; both volumes of Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir “Maus”; “The Fixer,” Bernard Malamud’s novel about a historical instance of antisemitic blood libel; and “Kasher in the Rye,” a ribald memoir by Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher.
Bribes allowed. Books on heroism not allowed. Everyday the United States gets shittier.
Go ahead Pro Israel activists. Vote Republican.
Those Nazi antisemites will love you even after you have given them all your money.
What do you mean? Clearly it’s people on the left that are antiemetic because they point out Israel does war crimes and genocide. As we all know criticizing the Zionist project is the same exact thing as wanting to murder all Jews because you think they secretly control the world.
A public school district? Are they allowed to do this?
“I will make it legal.” - Republicans
Idiots.
I live in one of many streets in Germany named after Anne Frank. Banning an illustrated version of Anne Frank’s Dairy is horryfying to me.
