The Left is obsessed with the idea that conservatives are the real book banners. California Democrat state Sen. Scott Weiner took to X recently to bash “MAGA” and assumedly Florida, accusing them of banning one of the most famous memoirs about the Holocaust.

“Florida banning the Diary of Anne Frank tells you everything you need to know about the MAGA movement,” Weiner wrote on X.

Florida banning the Diary of Anne Frank tells you everything you need to know about the MAGA movement.

What? Florida banned the Diary of Anne Frank!? Say it ain’t so. As you probably already guessed, it ain’t so.

Now, let’s take a step back for a moment. Does this narrative really pass the smell test? Does it make sense that Florida just quietly banned one of the most famous books of the 20th century?

Also, if Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl”—the book’s official title—is going to be banned by anyone these days it’s more likely to be by the “globalize the Intifada” crowd, right? You’ll find far more of those types in Zohran Mamdani’s New York than in a Florida full of former New Yorkers trending toward MAGA.

As you likely guessed, there is no evidence that Florida banned the Diary of Anne Frank. In fact, the book is on the Florida Department of Education’s recommended reading list for 6th to 8th grade students. The list also contains the excellent memoir of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch woman whose family hid Jews during the Holocaust. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chimed in on the “book banning” accusation against his state.

“This is not the first time a leftist has accused Florida of ‘banning’ a book that is on the state’s recommended reading list,” DeSantis wrote on........

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