“We have a role to play. We cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement,” the petition organized by the Palestinian Festival of Literature, among other groups, stated.
Other writers and publishing professionals to sign the Israeli literary boycott petition include Arundhati Roy, Annie Ernaux, Percival Everett, Ben Lerner, Jonathan Lethem, Mohsin Hamid and Gillian Slovo. The boycott will be aimed at institutions that fail to recognize “the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people as enshrined in international law,” according to petition signers.
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