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By Vyth for Politicsforum.org

Israel’s Education Ministry has banned a novel that describes a marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew, reports the Israeli Haaretz newspaper.

An official statement released by the ministry said that the book had been banned from schools because of the need to preserve Jewish ethnic identity.

“Intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens our separate identity,” the ministry explained.

Despite this, Israeli and American Jews remain the world’s top manufacturers, promoters and distributors of interracial pornography, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Source

(2015, December 31). “Israel Bans Novel on Arab-Jewish Romance From Schools for ‘Threatening Jewish Identity‘”. Haaretz. [Web document] Retrieved from http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.694620

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The novel itself is still available in Israel but it was removed from school textbooks for high school students because the book would inflame racial tensions even further. Other literary works by Israeli authors that describe interracial relationships between Jews and Arabs are included in the curriculum, which are rare but not totally banned in Israel. Some initial media reports were inaccurate and misleading and the anti-Israel lobby is somewhat similar to Korean civic groups, which are dead set against Japan, disseminating lies about the country's wartime conducts.

Israeli media said some teachers requested Dorit Rabinyan's novel, "Borderlife", be included in the high school curriculum but a ministry official said a committee rejected the book, as it could push up already high Jewish-Arab tension. "The book could incite hatred and cause emotional storms (in the classroom)," Dalia Fenig, who headed the ministry committee that decides which literary works are on the curriculum, told Israel's Army Radio.
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