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Free speech or cancel culture? Randa Abdel-Fattah disinvited from writers festival

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Palestinian woman Randa Abdel Fattah has been controversially disinvited or "cancelled" from an Adelaide Writers festival in the last few days, with the event now formally cancelled for 2026.

Nearly all of the other writers to present had pulled out of the event, citing opposition to her cancellation and limiting freedom of speech.

Some people out there are furious calling for formal investigations re the cancellation and outside political interference.

Randa Abdel Fattah though has been found to have tried to "cancel" a pro-Israeli author back in 2024, which comes across a double standard.

http://thenightly.com.au/australia/randa-abdel-fattah-row-literal-irony-of-woke-writers-block-as-authors-board-members-quit-adelaide-festival-c-21282572

We have also seen people like Deborah Conway for example have her events targeted by Palestinian activists due to her comments on Israel.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/deborah-conway-performance-interrupted-pro-palestinian-protest/103900264

I'm all for free speech. I am also for responsibility. I am though opposed to double standards, people picking and choosing what is free speech and who can talk and who cannot talk at something like a writers festival based on their own personal views.
Posted by NathanJ, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 7:53:58 PM
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Tough titty. This nasty person has a history of hate speech against Jews. She also signed a letter with other nasty leftists to block an Israeli writer from the same Writers' Hate Fest last year.

All the freaks boycotted the freak show. Most of the board have resigned. And best of all, the thing has been cancelled. Hopefully Adelaide will never again be plagued by "writers" hardly anyone has heard of. We've just had a massacre of Jews, and this bint even uses the bigoted, racist, genocidal phrase 'from the river to the sea', one of the filthy chants that should earn its users jail-time, followed by deportation for non-citizens afterwards.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 10:31:15 PM
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