Comments on: Writers’ festival drops Palestinian-Australian author https://www.jwire.com.au/writers-festival-drops-palestinian-australian-author/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Liat Joy Kirby https://www.jwire.com.au/writers-festival-drops-palestinian-australian-author/#comment-639969 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:35:13 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=176314#comment-639969 You’ve said it all, Andrew Blitz. It’s obviously completely inappropriate to have Abdel-Fattah spreading her vitriol at the Adelaide Writers Festival at this time. In fact, given the smouldering embers of antisemitism that became the full onslaught of the December 14 Bondi massacre, her kind of incitement should never be made possible. Her passionate accusations are ridiculous to an extreme, and the writers who are supporting her are useful idiots to her cause.

]]> By: Andrew Blitz https://www.jwire.com.au/writers-festival-drops-palestinian-australian-author/#comment-639966 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:04:39 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=176314#comment-639966 True to form, the AAP do not include context in their journalism. This article should have outlined more of the context as to why Dr Abdel-Fattah may have been uninvited. There is ample evidence with links on the Israellycool website. An extract as follows: She was involved in the publication (doxxing) of a leaked list of Jews on a WhatsApp website. She is on record stating that Jews have “no claim or right to cultural safety,” and it is a “duty […] to ensure that every space Zionists enter is culturally unsafe for them.” She refused to condemn an Islamic terrorist who murdered a Melbourne cafe owner in 2018, writing “I, an Australian Muslim, refuse to condemn the violence that took place on Bourke Street. To ask me to condemn is to strip me of my basic humanity.” There is a viral video or her clapping along as a boy of primary school age chanted “intifada, intifada” at a University protest. She changed her profile picture to a Palestinian Arab paratrooper the day after the October 7 attacks. She is quoted as saying “I don’t see them (Hamas) as a terrorist organisation.” She has called for an “end of Israel” and the “abolishment of the death cult of Zionism.”

Maybe the Royal Commission can use this information to distinguish between what is “free speech” and what is “anti-Semitism” which apparently has no place in Australia.

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