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#randaabdelfattah #writersweek #Adelaidefestival #Adelaide #australia #zionism #Malinauskas
Goss;
TLDR; Mali lied.
"Someone in the Palestine coordinating group posted this.
According to an insider I spoke with yesterday evening the line of pressure for axing the WW attendance of Dr Abdel-Fattah came directly from Premier Malinauskas to the AF board.
They failed to resist this demand and accordingly required the WW execs to withdraw the invitation to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.
So this means maximum activist pressure must be put on Malinauskas who must be persuaded to agree to the ban being revoked.
Malinauskas was being disingenuous when he said he could not order the AF board to axe the writer even though he approved of it. He may not be able order the axing by decree but he could certainly put an awful lot of pressure of various kinds on the AF board behind the scenes.
The AF board itself might have been quite ready to do his bidding since they are bureaucrats, not artists."
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50 writers boycott Adelaide festival after it dumps pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah
#AdelaideFestival #Boycott #Palestine #RandaAbdelFattah #Solidarity #WritersWeek
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Palestinian author seeks to be reinstated to Adelaide Writers' Week
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-09/sa-palestinian-author-calls-for-apology-over-writers-week-axing/106212878#AdelaideFestival #Authors #Palestine #RandaAbdelFattah #Solidarity #WritersWeek