Tag: Censorship

  • Israel pulls textbook with chapter on Nakba

    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…

  • ‘Want to read Harry Potter in Arabic? Not in Israel’

    Yuval Azoulay | Ha’aretz 22 July 2009 Books originating in Syria or Lebanon – the biggest publisher in the region of Arabic books – are illegal in Israel. The draft bill by MK Yuli Tamir (Labor), would change the embargo. But in the meantime, readers of Arabic in Israel will have to encounter roadblocks. Two…