Comment on Palestinian Australian author dropped from writers' festival after Bondi
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 6 days ago
How is it promoting community cohesion for barring someone based on race?
Seems like open-and-shut racial discrimination to me.
Comment on Palestinian Australian author dropped from writers' festival after Bondi
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 6 days ago
How is it promoting community cohesion for barring someone based on race?
Seems like open-and-shut racial discrimination to me.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 6 days ago
The statement from the Adelaide Festival board says that it’s because of “past statements” by Abdel-Fattah, though they don’t cite anything or even mention the nature of these statements. So it’s not explicitly because Abdel-Fattah’s ethnicity.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 days ago
they don’t need to, it was pretty loud news
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 6 days ago
She was cleared of wrongdoing and the suspension of the grant was lifted, btw:
theguardian.com/…/pro-palestine-academic-randa-ab…
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Cheers. Can still understand why they bumped her quietly in the climate though. Not saying I agree, but I can see the politics behind it.