To the editor:
The headline "Jewish-Arab Love Story Excluded From Israeli Classrooms" grossly inaccurate. As explained in the very first sentence of the article, the novel in question has not been excluded; it merely has not been chosen as required reading.
Given that there are many millions of novels in existence, with tens or hundreds of thousands of new novels published every year, and only a handful are required reading in Israeli high school classrooms, it may be news that a particular novel is chosen as required reading, but it hardly qualifies as news when a novel isn't.
Especially, when it comes to Israel, it appears The New York Times now has a curious interpretation of what constitutes "all the news that's fit to print."
Sincerely,
Alan Stein