Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books from classroom libraries (The Times of Israel)

Listen to some of the vile rhetoric against public education and selective targeting of books.  Anti-Black, Anti-Hispanic, Anti-Jewish, against critical thinking, they demand indoctrination, not education. Some of these feculent Florida freaks ululate and perseverate about freedom to learn in their putative "Freedom State."  In the memorable phrase of my late friend and client, Senior Special Agent Robert E. Tyndall, do some of the leaders of extremist groups need " a checkup from the neck up?"  From The Times of Israel:

Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books from classroom libraries

Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books’ removal

By ANDREW LAPINToday, 5:15 am   17

A photo of the late Jewish Canadian-American author Saul Bellow used for the first-edition back cover of 'Herzog' in 1964. (Photo by Jeff Lowenthal, Published by Viking Press, Public Domain, Wikimedia)

JTA – A global bestseller by a Jewish Holocaust victim; a novel by a beloved and politically conservative Jewish American writer; a memoir of growing up mixed-race and Jewish; and a contemporary novel about a high-achieving Jewish family are among the nearly 700 books a Florida school district removed from classroom libraries this year in fear of violating state laws on sexual content in schools.

The purge of books from Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, over the course of the past semester is the latest consequence of a conservative movement across the country — and strongest in Florida — to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive. While the vast majority of such challenged and removed books involve race, gender and sexuality, several Jewish books have previously been caught in the dragnet. 

The Orange County case is unusual for the sheer volume of books removed — 699 including some duplicates, according to documents the district provided — and for the unusually large number of books about the Holocaust and Jewish identity included among them. They included: 

– “Suite Française,” by Irène Némirovsky, a Ukrainian-French Jewish writer who wrote her novel in secret under German occupation before perishing in Auschwitz

– “Herzog,” a semi-autobiographical novel by Jewish writer Saul Bellow, an outspoken cultural conservative whose son Adam Bellow is a publisher of right-wing Jewish books