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Casey Cooper-Fiske

Pulp U-turn on festival boycott as it apologises for dropping Palestinian writer

Pulp will perform at this year’s Adelaide Festival (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Wire)

Pulp are to perform at Australia’s Adelaide Festival, which they initially boycotted, after the festival apologised to an Australian-Palestinian writer for removing her from its line-up.

Earlier this month, the festival said it had removed Randa Abdel-Fattah from its Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026 event as they said it would be “culturally insensitive to allow her to participate”, but has now retracted its statement and invited Abdel-Fattah to join its 2027 line-up.

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