Harry Potter enthusiasts are familiar with the character of the gloomy wizard Lord Voldemort,whose racist attitude is not limited to physical persecution of those who are not “pure-blooded” magical people (Harry Potter and the boycott of Israel, theguardian.com, and 29 October),but also manifest in the academic sphere. Teachers are persecuted or fired from teaching positions at Hogwarts, the school’s books are censored and its curriculum is rigorously modified to toe the line of the dominating ideology.
The boycott call is not directed at Jews, or but at state institutions complicit in the illegal occupation of PalestineContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com