Jews interested in the health of the Jewish people don’t want Jews dating and marrying non-Jews. That’s Identity 101.
JERUSALEM – How have Tel Aviv’s young liberals responded to a decision by Israel’s conservative, right-wing education minister to ban a novel about forbidden love between an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim?
They’ve made a video of Israelis and Palestinian kissing each other.
Published online Thursday morning by the magazine Time Out Tel Aviv, the video shows six young couples – male, female, straight and gay – kissing for the first time. Some of the pairs were already friends, and others had never met before. (It’s a take on the Tatia Pilieva 2014 project First Kiss)
Ironically, its almost impossible to tell who is Israeli and who is Palestinian in the video.
The provocative clip comes a week after it was revealed that Israel’s Education Ministry had disqualified Dorit Rabinyan’s book “Borderline” from a list of recommended reading for an advanced high school literature course. Yet to be released in English, “Borderline” is the story of an Israeli Jewish woman and a Palestinian Muslim man who meet in New York, fall in love and then part ways. She returns to Tel Aviv and he to Ramallah.
The Education Ministry said it banned the book from its literature list to maintain the “identity and heritage of students in every sector.” Ministry officials were worried that the “intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity,” reported Israeli daily Haaretz, which broke the story.
Some of Israel’s more liberal lawmakers criticized the move, calling it racist and a gross attempt at censorship.
