The Supreme Court called yesterday on the Film and Theater Censorship Board to show cause why it banned production of the play, “Friends Tell About Jesus,” by Amos Kenan. The court acted on an order nisi obtained by Kenan, a playwright and Journalist close to Israel’s New Left.
Kenan said the only reason cited by the Board for Its ban was that the play denigrates values sacred to a portion of the Israeli public. The writer asserted that then reason constitutes an Infringement on freedom of artistic expression and freedom of social criticism.
The writer added that in recent years the censorship board has allowed many plays which were no less critical of so-called sacred values than his. The high court will continue its hearing in a month after It receives the explanation requested from the censorship board.
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