A colouring book aimed at educating children on the Israeli occupation of Palestine has apparently disappeared from the shelves of Exclusive Books.The book is titled From the River to the Sea. It is illustrated by Nathi Ngubane and published by Social Bandit Media.
A colouring book aimed at educating children on the Israeli occupation of Palestine has apparently disappeared from the shelves of Exclusive Books.Azad Essa of Social Bandit Media said they were ‘aware that Exclusive Books had removed the books from their shelves and placed them in their storeroom’.
Ngubane said he and the publisher got insights from Palestinians, teachers and parents before publishing the book. They also consulted ‘anti-Zionist Jewish historians like Ilan Pappe’.isn’t antisemitic at all. The phrase is simply an inspirational call for freedom and coexistence. The aim is to tell the story of Palestine and their fight for freedom.’
Ngubane said he had been ‘bombarded’ with hate messages on social media. ‘I am receiving these hate messages while children and their parents are being burned alive in Rafah and yet a colouring book is where the line is drawn? The people of Palestine deserve their story to be told and as a visual artist and writer, it is my responsibility to contribute to the political education of our youth.
‘We reject the notion that the Jewish population use the term antisemitism as a weapon to silence free expression over Israel. It is typical of an approach whereby certain people prefer to talk about Jews rather than to them, who presume to decide for themselves what constitutes antisemitism rather than honestly engaging with what those who after all are the objects of such prejudice have to say on the subject. We, as the targets of the bigotry, will decide for ourselves what we deem offensive.
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