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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Adeshola Ore and Kelly Burke

Almost 50 writers boycott Adelaide festival after it dumps pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah

Palestinian Australian author and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Palestinian Australian Randa Abdel-Fattah’s appearance at the Adelaide writers’ week was cancelled with the board citing ‘cultural sensitivity’. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

The Adelaide festival has pulled down part of its website as dozens of speakers said they were boycotting writers’ week, after Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah was dumped from the lineup with the board citing “cultural sensitivity” concerns in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.

The page promoting the schedule of authors, journalists, academics and commentators was “unpublished” on Friday following widespread condemnation of the board’s decision to remove Abdel-Fattah.

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