The only thing you can actually be cancelled for is supporting Palestine.
thedigisup on
Has Abdel-Fattah got any specific negative reputation at all or is this literally just because she is Palestinian?
LittleAgoo on
Didnt the same thing happen last year? Or was that another writer festival?
NorthernSkeptic on
Abdel-Fattah should sue. To connect her personally to Bondi in this way is absurdly libellous.
Choice_Wave8076 on
Deplatforming artists that portray Muslims in a humanising way is a horrific form of censorship performed by the zionist lobby. Shame on the premier of SA and the event organisers for allowing this to happen.
jeffoh on
Gotta hand it to the Zionists, they’re winning the culture war.
This is straight up Islamophobia and is backed by the State Govt.
LittleAgoo on
Absolutely wild decision. I’d like to point out that the shooters were also men, but I’m not seeing men being deplatformed from any events.
ju2au on
Advocating against human genocide should not be controversial and censored.
Common-Ad-6582 on
She openly said she wants the end of Israel, she is a violent extremist
Secure_Gur5586 on
This is plain discrimination. I hope she sues them
MentalStatusCode410 on
” In 2023, **law firm and major sponsor MinterEllison withdrew its support for Adelaide Festival because of concern about the *potential* for “racist or anti-Semitic commentary”** from two writers scheduled to speak at AWW: Palestinian American novelist and scholar Susan Abulhawa and Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd.
That year, Adler and the festival’s then-chief executive Kath Mainland defended the decision to program the authors.
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” **people from the commercial sector have joined those same boards**, bringing with them an understanding of risk management.
As **organisations rely more on external funding**, it’s only “natural” that boards would become more “cautious”, she said, “and it’s counterproductive and it’s been devastating”. ”
Sounds like political extortion for a foreign government if you ask me….
Dismal_Armadillo_601 on
This is undisguised racism, and apart from the million other reasons it’s reprehensible, it is so unbecoming of an arts festival to shut someone out on this basis.
It feels so antithetical to what a festival like this should be. In an ideal world, all members of the board would have a hard time finding work after the festival.
OhtheHugeManity7 on
Particularly egregious when she literally just got cleared of wrongdoing over the last academic attack on her for being Palestinian. I hope the bulk of the writers drop out and it’s just like three weird dudes speaking awkwardly on the stage.
Inevitable_Geometry on
A board with not artists dictating this shit?
Fucking great. Hope she sues them.
RavishingRavick on
Genocide is cultural sensitivity. What a time to be alive.
Outrageous-Papaya430 on
Well shit that’s not very sensitive is it
Billyjamesjeff on
Dr Abdel-Fattah hits the nail on the head
“What makes this so egregiously racist is that the Adelaide Writers Festival Board [sic] has stripped me of my humanity and agency, reducing me to an object onto which others can project their racist fears and smears,”
How terribly racist this country can be.
asnafutimnafutifut on
Hey Zionists, fuck you.
Wakunai on
Outrageous. This madness has to stop…simply existing as a Palestinian is somehow insensitive?
tecdaz on
The country is pretty tired of the endless tantrums of the infantile, antisemitic far left.
unconfirmedpanda on
So, as I understand it she was axed simply for existing as a Palestinian? The book doesn’t contain elements that could be linked to the Bondi attack at all?
Australian writers’ festivals need to shape the fuck up.
SpecialKindsSadness on
Good
junie2000 on
Way to destroy the reputation of a festival. If they cancelled Israeli authors they’d be accused of anti semitism. I’m gob smacked at the poor decisions made.
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The only thing you can actually be cancelled for is supporting Palestine.
Has Abdel-Fattah got any specific negative reputation at all or is this literally just because she is Palestinian?
Didnt the same thing happen last year? Or was that another writer festival?
Abdel-Fattah should sue. To connect her personally to Bondi in this way is absurdly libellous.
Deplatforming artists that portray Muslims in a humanising way is a horrific form of censorship performed by the zionist lobby. Shame on the premier of SA and the event organisers for allowing this to happen.
Gotta hand it to the Zionists, they’re winning the culture war.
This is straight up Islamophobia and is backed by the State Govt.
Absolutely wild decision. I’d like to point out that the shooters were also men, but I’m not seeing men being deplatformed from any events.
Advocating against human genocide should not be controversial and censored.
She openly said she wants the end of Israel, she is a violent extremist
This is plain discrimination. I hope she sues them
” In 2023, **law firm and major sponsor MinterEllison withdrew its support for Adelaide Festival because of concern about the *potential* for “racist or anti-Semitic commentary”** from two writers scheduled to speak at AWW: Palestinian American novelist and scholar Susan Abulhawa and Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd.
That year, Adler and the festival’s then-chief executive Kath Mainland defended the decision to program the authors.
……
” **people from the commercial sector have joined those same boards**, bringing with them an understanding of risk management.
As **organisations rely more on external funding**, it’s only “natural” that boards would become more “cautious”, she said, “and it’s counterproductive and it’s been devastating”. ”
Sounds like political extortion for a foreign government if you ask me….
This is undisguised racism, and apart from the million other reasons it’s reprehensible, it is so unbecoming of an arts festival to shut someone out on this basis.
It feels so antithetical to what a festival like this should be. In an ideal world, all members of the board would have a hard time finding work after the festival.
Particularly egregious when she literally just got cleared of wrongdoing over the last academic attack on her for being Palestinian. I hope the bulk of the writers drop out and it’s just like three weird dudes speaking awkwardly on the stage.
A board with not artists dictating this shit?
Fucking great. Hope she sues them.
Genocide is cultural sensitivity. What a time to be alive.
Well shit that’s not very sensitive is it
Dr Abdel-Fattah hits the nail on the head
“What makes this so egregiously racist is that the Adelaide Writers Festival Board [sic] has stripped me of my humanity and agency, reducing me to an object onto which others can project their racist fears and smears,”
How terribly racist this country can be.
Hey Zionists, fuck you.
Outrageous. This madness has to stop…simply existing as a Palestinian is somehow insensitive?
The country is pretty tired of the endless tantrums of the infantile, antisemitic far left.
So, as I understand it she was axed simply for existing as a Palestinian? The book doesn’t contain elements that could be linked to the Bondi attack at all?
Australian writers’ festivals need to shape the fuck up.
Good
Way to destroy the reputation of a festival. If they cancelled Israeli authors they’d be accused of anti semitism. I’m gob smacked at the poor decisions made.