Who is afraid of Eli Yishai?


Published in The Jerusalem Post, 24.4.2011
Israel’s dictatorship of literary conformism stood at attention as Interior Minister Eli Yishai (the leader of the ultra-Orthodox SephardiShas party), announced his decision to declare Günter Grass a persona non grata in Israel. Grass was heavily criticized in Israel for a poem he wrote in which he describes Israel as a major threat to world peace...