"Another of you half truths Jim, the book is allowed in schools., "
You have the news item - what exactly have I edited out?
I read it first in the Irish Times- that is how I understand it.
I leave "half truths" to those who clame "every historian on the basis of a few quotrdf from less han half a dozen "historians" You right wingers can neither handle the truth or tell it.
Even if you are correct - it is a case of an extremist regime adopting the Fahrenheit 451 approach to literature in order to preserve a culturally 'pure' state - say it is not.
From Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva
"Novel banned from Israeli schools out of assimilation fear
Education Ministry disqualifies novel depicting Arab-Jewish love story for fear it threatens adolescents' 'Jewish identity.'
Israel's Education Ministry has disqualified a novel which depicts a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from use in high schools across the country, Haaretz reported Wednesday.
orit Rabinyan's "Gader Haya" (known in English as "Borderlife") was rejected because of the need to maintain "the identity and heritage of students in every sector" and the belief that "intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity."

Concern that "young people of adolescent age don't have the systemic view that includes considerations involving maintaing the identity of people and the significance of assimilation" was also cited as a reason for the novel's disqualification.

According to Haaretz, the book was rejected in spite of the fact the official responsible for teaching literature in secular state schools, in addition to a committee of academics, recommended adding the book to the advanced class' syllabus at the request of several teachers.
However, two senior Education Ministry officials, Eliraz Kraus, who is in charge of "society and humanity" studies, and Dalia Fenig, the acting chair of the pedagogic secretariat, both opposed the move.
"Many parents in the public education system will be strongly opposed to their son/daughter studying [this] novel, and they will see it as an attack on the contract of trust between parents and the educational system," Fenig explained.
"It should be remembered the choice of what creative work to teach is the teacher's and not the students'," she added.
"Intimate relations and certainly the open option of institutionalization via marriage and raising a family - even if this does not happen in the story - between Jews and non-Jews is seen among many communities in society as a threat to the separate identity."
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"What 'evidence' then, Jim?"
Personal experience over 20 years backed up by newspaper reports of surveys saying exactly how they have fitted into living in Britain
What's your evidence Mike - the fact that they offend your dress sense maybe??
" Let me reiterate that Islam is NOT a race"
Nobody has ever said irt was - you said this once before in support of Keith's attack on "all male Pakistanis" - which was blatant racism in the extreme
Jim Carroll