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A number of homosexual activist academics started a campaign against the book [Prakim nivharim b'psichiatria, 2010 ed.], and the chat lists of Israeli faculty are filled with calls for suppression of the book and censorship of "incorrect" ideas about homosexuality. The book contains "incorrect information," insist the censors. Suppose that it does. But so does the book by Shlomo Sand. Since when does the fact that a book contains incorrect information entitle the leftist thought police to suppress and censor it?

http://zioncon.blogspot.com/2011/12/israels-tenured-left-demands-censorship.html

Israel's Tenured Left Demands Censorship! The death of academic freedom in Israel!
The latest cause of Israel's tenured radicals is censorship. They are all in FAVOR of it!

posted by Steven Plaut
Monday, December 26, 2011

Hundreds of Israeli academics are issuing calls and signing petitions demanding that a book containing unfashionable comments about homosexuality be censored and barred from any use in academic institutions. Not a single one of these tenured sheep ever condemned the "book" by Tel Aviv University's Shlomo Sand that claimed that there is no such thing as a Jewish people and that today's Jews are merely descendents from converted Khazars and Berbers, having no rights at all to self-determination and statehood. Not a single participant in the campaign for censorship this week ever offered the opinion that Sand's book should be removed from library shelves and course syllabi. And not a single crusader for censorship this week thinks that minority dissenting opinions about homosexuality have the right to be aired in classrooms and textbooks.

The ruckus this week over homosexuality involves a standard Hebrew textbook in psychiatry entitled, "Prakim nivharim b'psichiatria" ("Select Chapters in Psychiatry") the most recent edition of was published in 2010. It expresses some unfashionable and "politically incorrect" opinions about homosexuality. It describes homosexuality as a disorder, insisting it is curable, and endorses "conversion therapy," which is vehemently opposed by homosexual militant organizations. The chapter that today's censors are upset over was written by Prof. Shmuel Tiano, former director of the Geha Psychiatric Hospital in Petah Tikva.

You can see the Haaretz report on the ruckus in English here:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-textbook-slammed-for-calling-homosexuality-a-disorder-1.403572

A number of homosexual activist academics started a campaign against the book, and the chat lists of Israeli faculty are filled with calls for suppression of the book and censorship of "incorrect" ideas about homosexuality. The book contains "incorrect information," insist the censors. Suppose that it does. But so does the book by Shlomo Sand. Since when does the fact that a book contains incorrect information entitle the leftist thought police to suppress and censor it?

The tenured censors insist that students be prevented from hearing the opinion that homosexuality is a disorder, and a treatable one at that. Their vehement insistence that homosexuality is NOT a disorder might be more easily marketable if these were not the very same people also insisting that "transgendered" people (transvestites and those who undergo genital mutilation) are ALSO "normal" people suffering from no disorders at all. Without getting into a whole debate here about homosexuality in general, let me just say that it is my opinion that by adding that "T" to the "LGB" to construct "LGBT," the politicized homosexual militant movement (which is almost always anti-Semitic and pro-terror, by the way) has also shot itself in its own foot and undercut any chances it ever had of persuading the general public of its case for legitimizing homosexuality.

And by leading the jihad for censorship, Israel's own militant homosexuals, led by its tenured pinks, is showing its own fundamental hostility to freedom of speech, academic freedom, and democracy.