In 1996, French police seized an issue of the Algerian daily Liberté because of an article, “When the Seine Rolled with Corpses,” about a 1962 Paris demonstration for Algerian independence that ended in a bloodbath.16 Descriptions of contemporary colonial violence have also been widely censored. In 1989, the Arabic edition of Israeli author Dror Green’s Stories of the Intifada, which described Israel’s occupation from the perspective of the occupied, was banned in the West Bank and Gaza.
