• Re: Adelaide Festival Writers? Week Implodes

    From Mutley@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, January 15, 2026 08:52:13
    rjac@shell02.TheWorld.com wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:32:40 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro ><ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    After that brutal and shocking massacre of Jewish participants at a >>festival at Sydney?s Bondi Beach last month, some bright sparks in
    charge of the Adelaide Festival Writers? Week decided that it would be >>somehow insensitive to have a Palestinian, Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah
    present. Because the very fact that she has been critical of Israel?s >>occupation of her country is tantamount to anti-Semitism, don?t you
    know.

    So they withdrew their invention to her to attend.

    And what do you know, a whole bunch of other invitees see this, quite >>rightly, as a total overreaction. And so, to express their solidarity
    with this unfair singling out of a Palestinian author, they are
    pulling out en masse from the festival. This includes ???s own former
    Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. And a Jewish writer, Louise Adler, the >>daughter of holocaust survivors, too.

    <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm4jkwz2z8o>


    There should be a massive pro-Palestine rally at the festival. Fuck
    the jews, they had it coming
    Hitler would have been proud of your post.l

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