Per avere un libro di storia il più possibile completo, pluralista, frutto di un coro eterogeneo di voci si può e si deve lottare. La pensano così gli studenti di un istituto superiore di Sderot, centro urbano israeliano di piccole dimensioni e scarso appeal estetico, but undoubted reputation, given its unfortunate location.
The town, in fact, is located in the western Negev desert, one kilometer from the Gaza Strip. And this location has been for years, alternately preferred target of Palestinian rocket craft more or less fired from Gaza or gateway to the Hamas-controlled strip of land for Israeli reprisals.
Sderot is a must for the international press who wants to understand how they live the Israeli border, those who have a few seconds to escape the time when an alarm sounds missile. At the same time, the town founded in the 50s is a point of observation "ideal" to follow at a safe distance the Israeli air raids in Gaza, as occurred during the operation lead time (December 2008-January 2009).
But from now on in Sderot, you can also associate a different image: that of a population which, through its younger members, wants to turn the page. Here's why. The boys
Institute Sha'ar Hanegev, deprived of a history text that appeared side by side, the reconstruction of the history of the modern Middle East at the hands of an Israeli and a Palestinian professor, and do not intend to resign ask to speak with the director of the Ministry of Education who ordered the withdrawal.
The news was reported on October 25 from the site of the newspaper Haaretz. The offending book, "Learning the historical narrative of each individual", has already been used in high school in Sderot last year by the will of the president Aharon Rothstein, but, say the leaders in Tel Aviv, without proper authorization. The ban was defined by students 'irritating and disappointing, "now they want to know what they are afraid the Ministry of Education and thundered:" This attitude reduces our intelligence and is somewhat' insulting to say that I believe everything we read. You could say the same of "Mein Kampf" by Hitler bed within hours of history. But of course, does not work that way. "
The volume is signed by Dan Bar-On, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and Sami Adwan, Bethlehem University. Among other versions of the same historical facts, in the middle, a white space allows students to put their comments to be discussed later in class.
According to the reconstruction of Haaretz, the ministry has "pricked up his ears" after a first article written about intercultural project, coordinated by a Swedish institution. After a meeting with the principal, the text has been banned without appeal.
Meanwhile, Rothstein was the principal 'forbidden talk to the press, "he told Lettera43 its secretariat, clarifying that the tax is directly" by the Ministry of Education. "
http://www.lettera43.it/articolo/1543/pagine-che-fanno-paura.htm
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