Or Kashti | Haaretz
19 October 2009
The Ministry of Education has taken the unusual step of collecting all copies of the history textbook, “Nationalism: Building a State in the Middle East” which was published about two months ago by the Zalman Shazar Center. They will be returned to the shelves only after corrections are made to the text, particularly with reference to the War of Independence.
The book had already been approved by the ministry.
“Collecting the books from the shops is an unnecessary censorship,” said Dr. Tsafrir Goldberg, who wrote the controversial chapter on the war. “The process of … Continue reading
