{"id":884446,"date":"2026-10-16T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884446\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:52:14","slug":"childrens-book-on-palestine-withdrawn-as-authors-accuse-publisher-of-sanitizing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884446\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Book on Palestine Withdrawn as Authors Accuse Publisher of \u201cSanitizing\u201d History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The publishing giant Penguin Random House has withdrawn a book about Palestine for young readers just days before its scheduled release, following editorial disputes with the book\u2019s Palestinian American authors. According to The Guardian, copies of \u201cDisplacement and the Palestinian American Story\u201d were due to arrive in bookstores and libraries in September, but authors Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari withdrew their manuscript when editors at Random House Children\u2019s Books requested changes to their account of Palestinian history. The authors now plan to publish through Interlink Books, a Palestinian-owned U.S. publisher. In a statement, co-author Jenan Matari said, \u201cThey continued to try to sanitize our history because they didn\u2019t want to make certain communities uncomfortable. But decolonial history is supposed to make you uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The publishing giant Penguin Random House has withdrawn a book about Palestine for young readers just days before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":["post-884446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}