{"id":1941374,"date":"2023-05-31T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-in-israel-offer-lesson-on-actual-book-banning-with-protests-of-author-abigail-shrier\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:02:51","slug":"leftists-in-israel-offer-lesson-on-actual-book-banning-with-protests-of-author-abigail-shrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-in-israel-offer-lesson-on-actual-book-banning-with-protests-of-author-abigail-shrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli leftists protest author Abigail Shrier, teaching a lesson on book banning."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-in-israel-offer-lesson-on-actual-book-banning-with-protests-of-author-abigail-shrier%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1941374&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actual Book Banning: Far-Left Activists in Israel Refuse to Carry Bestseller<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n            <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n        <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While American leftists cry victim over alleged \u201cbook banning\u201d in K-12 classrooms, far-left activists in Israel are showing the world what actual book banning looks like. <\/p>\n<p>Abigail Shrier\u2019s bestseller went on sale in Israel this week. The book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters\/dp\/1684510317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters<\/em><\/a>, peels back the curtain on the Western outbreak of transgenderism as a social contagion. On Twitter, Shrier documented how the rollout went in Israel. <\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>HOW LEFTIST MEDIA LIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My book was published this week in Israel, a country 1\/50th the population of the US, where Amazon has little presence. Bowing to LGBTQ+ activist pressure, the two largest book chains refused to carry the book, which made it hard to buy in Israel. <\/p>\n<p>1\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GtHdufBgHh\">pic.twitter.com\/GtHdufBgHh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBowing to LGBTQ+ activist pressure, the two largest book chains refused to carry the book, which made it hard to buy in Israel,\u201d Shrier wrote. After hundreds of people registered for a paid event, \u201cPRIDE bullied two large venues in Tel Aviv to cancel my talk, threatening to boycott those venues for all of PRIDE month if they allowed me to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event was moved to a suburb, Shrier added, where a venue with lower capacity forced away more than a hundred ticket holders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttendees had to walk through a throng of hundreds of enraged, protesters screaming, blaring horns and banging drums,\u201d Shrier wrote. \u201cOne protester rushed the stage and had to be wrestled to the ground by audience members.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Leftist Hypocrisy on Book Banning<\/h3>\n<p>Leftists in America, meanwhile, are claiming that Republican-passed restrictions on <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/creator-of-pornographic-content-banned-from-schools-says-book-is-necessary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pornographic<\/a> books for children are an exercise in totalitarian censorship. Never mind the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/12\/welcome-to-your-new-world-order-a-rundown-of-woke-insanity-amid-the-newest-cultural-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cultural revolution<\/a> wherein activists waged war on the classics such as <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of headlines claiming Republicans \u2014 mainly Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who announced his campaign for president last week \u2014 are hellbent on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-created-new-hate-speech-policy-before-banning-bestselling-book-on-transgenderism\/\" title=\"Amazon Created New \u2018Hate Speech\u2019 Policy Before Banning Bestselling Book on Transgenderism\">banning books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida at Center of Debate as School Book Bans Surge Nationally,\u201d read an April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/22\/books\/book-ban-florida.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> from The New York Times. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresidential hopeful DeSantis inspires push to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-in-israel-offer-lesson-on-actual-book-banning-with-protests-of-author-abigail-shrier\/\" title=\"Israeli leftists protest author Abigail Shrier, teaching a lesson on book banning.\">make book bans easier<\/a> in Republican-controlled states,\u201d read <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ron-desantis-2024-book-bans-libraries-republicans-9f3c944117e58bb5a3e4c9fef0d3b0e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another<\/a> in the Associated Press on Friday. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/31\/corporate-media-and-leftist-midwits-redefine-banned-books\/\">Leftist Midwits And Their Media Allies Redefine \u2018Banned\u2019 Books<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In March, Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/29\/there-are-no-banned-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> that \u201cthere are no banned books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the left, the banned book claim is a political racket, allowing them to feign indignation over the alleged \u2018authoritarianism\u2019 of Republicans who don\u2019t want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-are-no-banned-books\/\" title=\"There Are No Banned Books\">kids reading identitarian pseudohistories<\/a> or books depicting oral sex, rape, violence, or gender dysphoria in their schools,\u201d Harsanyi wrote. \u201cBooks are banned in Tennessee in the same way a person can\u2019t say the word \u2018gay\u2019 in Florida. It\u2019s a myth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one knows more about modern book banning, however, than Shrier, who documented her book\u2019s debut with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-books-are-already-burning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essay<\/a> in The Free Press two years ago titled, \u201cThe Books Are Already Burning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince publication, I have faced fierce opposition \u2014 not just to the ideas presented, challenged, or explored \u2014 but to the publication of the book itself,\u201d Shrier wrote. \u201cA top lawyer for the ACLU called for it to be banned. Powerful organizations like GLAAD have lobbied against it and pressured corporations \u2014 Target and Amazon among others \u2014 to remove <em>Irreversible Damage<\/em> from their virtual shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftists in the US claim &#8220;book banning&#8221; in K-12 classrooms, but Israel&#8217;s far-left activists demonstrate actual book banning. Abigail Shrier&#8217;s bestseller, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, is now available in Israel, revealing the Western spread of transgenderism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1941375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[27982,12730,6492,5297,5779,5965,5510,4542,27983,5008],"class_list":["post-1941374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-abigail","tag-author","tag-banning","tag-book","tag-israeli","tag-leftists","tag-lesson","tag-protest","tag-shrier","tag-teaching"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}