The decision by Pearson Education Limited (Pearson) to withdraw Hilary Brash's text book —The Middle East: Conflict, Crisis and Change, 1917- 2012—comesaftertrenchantcriticism by blogger David Collier.
Collier questioned—among many other criticisms—why two timelines did not mention the Holocaust and why references to massacres of Jewish communities had been branded as "clashes".