mohammed al-kurd Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/mohammed-al-kurd/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:55:16 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Festival boss stares down author, sponsor cancellations https://www.jwire.com.au/festival-boss-stares-down-author-sponsor-cancellations/ https://www.jwire.com.au/festival-boss-stares-down-author-sponsor-cancellations/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:55:16 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=145149 Louise Adler was hoping for a civil conversation in a garden about books. Instead, the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week is dealing with calls to resign, allegations she has invited authors of hate speech and writers and sponsors pulling out. “I’m not running a political festival here, I’m running a literary festival,” she told AAP. […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/festival-boss-stares-down-author-sponsor-cancellations/feed/ 2 145149 Indigenous Friends of Israel condemns Adelaide Writers Festival https://www.jwire.com.au/indigenous-friends-of-israel-condemns-adelaide-writers-festival/ https://www.jwire.com.au/indigenous-friends-of-israel-condemns-adelaide-writers-festival/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2023 01:53:08 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=145111 The Adelaide Writers Festival has invited two overseas pro-Palestine and anti-Israel writers resulting in the SA Premier announcing he will not attend the festival. Indigenous Friends of Israel (IFI) co-founders Norman and Barbara Miller wrote: “Adelaide Writers Festival organisers seem to think free speech reads hate speech or racist speech, which is not so. In […]

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