Adelaide Festival cancels Palestinian author. Festival gets cancelled. Nazis lose.

[Tommy Tainant]

Randa Abdel-Fattah: How Adelaide Writers' Week imploded after axeing Palestinian author

Some 180 writers, including former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, have withdrawn from the event.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is not a great news story. Free speech has made a stand but it would have been better if the festival had gone ahead with her.

God knows aussies need the culture. Well done Israel !

 

[pknopp]

I generally note that what other countries do isn't any of my business but my comments aren't about the decision.

My comment is to commend those who bowed out as they obviously understood that if one can be excluded it becomes easier for others to be excluded going forward.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Randa Abdel-Fattah: How Adelaide Writers' Week imploded after axeing Palestinian author

Some 180 writers, including former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, have withdrawn from the event.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is not a great news story. Free speech has made a stand but it would have been better if the festival had gone ahead with her.

God knows aussies need the culture. Well done Israel !

Yeah Bibi is trying to turn the entire world against his version of Israel and he's doing a great job

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Yeah Bibi is trying to turn the entire world against his version of Israel and he's doing a great job

When you cant make your case they have won.

 

[Deadstick]

The Zionist lobby has infested everywhere, including in the US Congress and UK Parliament, it has to be confronted everywhere.