Government accused of censorship after reportedly saying the award-winning Borderlife by Dorit Rabinyan risked damaging the ‘identity of the nation’ A novel about a fancy affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man has been barred from Israel’s tall school curriculum,reportedly over concerns that it could encourage intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews.
The rejection of Dorit Rabinyan’s novel Borderlife, which was published in 2014, and created an uproar in Israel,with critics accusing the government of censorship.
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Source: theguardian.com