Word: censorship
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Israeli audiences loved it, but the revue was banned by the government's censorship board as offensive to "the basic values of the nation, the state and Judaism." In the past, Israeli censors have occasionally outlawed Arabic-language plays, but they have never taken such action against a Hebrew-language production...
...defending the decision, Censorship Board Chairman Yehoshua Justman charged that the Levin play portrayed the Israeli people as "corrupt, degenerate, ruthlessly killing Arab children and degrading the Arabs...
...newspaper Ha'aretz observed, "You don't have to love Levin's play or agree with his opinions to defend his right to say whatever he likes." At midweek in a preliminary vote, the Israeli Knesset expressed its support of a bill that would abolish all censorship of films and plays...
...past two years, however, the authorities have systematically expunged Aksyonov's name from the annals of contemporary Russian letters. The reasons were not hard to find. In addition to his writing, he had been attempting to challenge Soviet censorship. His anthology of unorthodox Russian writing, Metropol, was denounced in the Soviet press as salacious and subversive. The Soviet secret police, the KGB, began to hound him in an effort to drive him into exile. In 1980, Aksyonov and his wife Maya succumbed to pressure and left the Soviet Union. His citizenship was then taken away by the Supreme Soviet...
...conservative. Children who attempt innovations, warned Socrates, acting as Plato's narrator, will desire a different sort of life when they grow up to be men, with other institutions and laws. And this "is full of danger to the whole state." To prevent any innovations, Socrates forthrightly demanded censorship so that students could not "hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons." When asked whose works he would ban, Socrates specifically named Homer. The poet's crime, he said, was to provide "an erroneous representation of the nature of gods and heroes...