Article 6KCSN Authors withdraw from PEN America festival in protest over Israel-Gaza war

Authors withdraw from PEN America festival in protest over Israel-Gaza war

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Richard Luscombe
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Group of more than a dozen writers decry organization's inadequate response to genocide' being committed by Israel

More than a dozen prominent authors and literary figures have withdrawn from PEN America's flagship World Voices Festival in protest of what they see as an inadequate response by the organization to the genocide" being committed against Palestinians by Israel in Gaza.

The group of writers, which includes Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad and Zaina Arafat, sent a letter to PEN America asserting it had betrayed the organization's professed commitment to peace and equality for all, and to freedom and security for writers everywhere" by failing to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war.

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