Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has drawn widespread criticism for his anti-Israel views and content at his concerts, including wearing a Nazi-style uniform while performing in Germany. Now, he is slated to take part in the “Palestine Writes Literature Festival” at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from Sept. 22-24.
The event is “the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists,” according to the festival’s website, and it was “born from the pervasive exclusion from or tokenization of Palestinian voices in mainstream literary institutions.”
