The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were “filthy and evil.”

Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with Jewish themes.

In Mission, the long list of books on the chopping block includes a recent illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary; both volumes of Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir “Maus”; “The Fixer,” Bernard Malamud’s novel about a historical instance of antisemitic blood libel; and “Kasher in the Rye,” a ribald memoir by Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher.

  • @[email protected]
    15•5 months ago

    Netanyahu is an evil fuck, but this isn’t his war, Israel has been doing slow and steady ethnic cleansing of the region for 50+ years.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•5 months ago

      Rabin was closer than anyone to ending it, and Netanyahu’s stochastic terrorism led directly to his death. And he’s been propping up Hamas ever since, to give Israel an enemy to hate and prevent peace from ever coming to the region.

      Fuck him, he owns it now.

      • mozz
        3•5 months ago

        “No does more for Israel than I do”

        “What about that time you killed a democratically elected Israeli leader who was doing good things for Israel”

        “That’s what I said. He was doing more than me for Israel, and we can’t have that. No one does more for Israel than I do.”

    • mozz
      6•5 months ago

      True that. Netanyahu’s a little more extreme than the norm, but as I understand it, yes, Israeli politics is:

      • A majority that wants full-on ethnic cleansing
      • A minority party that wants oppression and murder but not in a way that’s explicitly genocidal or threatens their own security
      • And maybe a tiny dissident faction that wants actual human rights for the Palestinians

      I’m speaking well of the dissident faction and highlighting its existence in the first place; I’m not saying it’s anywhere near the mainstream.