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Haaretz<\/a>:<\/p>\n Move comes despite the fact that the official responsible for teaching of literature in secular state schools recommended the book for use in advanced literature classes, as did a professional committee of academics and educators. If you have a strong identity and you want your group to thrive, you identify threats to that identity and to your group and you take action. The most primitive living organisms react strongly against those who “f*** up my … Continue reading
\nIsrael\u2019s Education Ministry has disqualified a novel that describes a love story between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from use by high schools around the country. The move comes even though the official responsible for literature instruction in secular state schools recommended the book for use in advanced literature classes, as did a professional committee of academics and educators, at the request of a number of teachers.
\nAmong the reasons stated for the disqualification of\u00a0Dorit Rabinyan\u2019s \u201cGader Haya\u201d (literally \u201cHedgerow,\u201d but known in English as \u201cBorderlife\u201d) is the need to maintain what was referred to as \u201cthe identity and the heritage of students in every sector,\u201d and the belief that \u201cintimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity.\u201d The Education Ministry also expressed concern that \u201cyoung people of adolescent age don\u2019t have the systemic view that includes considerations involving maintaining the national-ethnic identity of the people and the significance of miscegenation.\u201d
\nThe book,\u00a0published in Hebrew by Am Oved about a year and a half ago,\u00a0tells the story of Liat, an Israeli translator, and Hilmi, a Palestinian artist, who meet and fall in love in New York, until they part ways for her to return to Tel Aviv and he to the West Bank city of Ramallah. The book was among this year\u2019s winners of the Bernstein Prize for young writers.
\nA source familiar with the ministry\u2019s approach to the book said that in recent months a large number of literature teachers asked that \u201cBorderlife\u201d be included in advanced literature classes. After consideration of the request, a professional committee headed by Prof. Rafi Weichert from the University of Haifa approved the request. The committee included academics, Education Ministry representatives and veteran teachers. The panel\u2019s role is to advise the ministry on various educational issues, including approval of curriculum.
\nAccording to the\u00a0source, members of the professional committee, as well as the person in charge of literature studies, \u201cthought that the book is appropriate for students in the upper grades of high schools \u2013 both from an artistic and literary standpoint and regarding the topic it raises. Another thing to remember is that the number of students who study advanced literature classes is anyhow low, and the choice of books is very wide.\u201d
\nAnother source in the Education Ministry said that the process took a number of weeks, and that \u201cit\u2019s hard to believe that we reached a stage where there\u2019s a need to apologize for wanting to include a new and excellent book into the curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"