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]
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    -105 months ago

    I’m sure there is some effort in every corner of the globe to have some books banned. You’re minimizing it either through ignorance or malice.

    • @Snowclone
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      15 months ago

      Next time just say ‘‘No U’’, all this is doing is convincing me you don’t know what these words mean.