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.

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.

I wonder if high profile Jewish lawyers Mark and Jeremy Liebler (President of Zionist Federation of Australia) make threats of lawfare against anyone even remotely critical of Israel, in this case the board of the Adelaide writers festival?

A similar situation seemed to occur at the Bendigo writers festival in August.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendigo_Writers_Festival_boycott

Seems these people are happy for there to be no festival at all. If the stories aren't Pro Israel (and silence all others as Anti-Semitic - the Anti-Zionist line taken in Bendigo) telling us all things like how the IDF is the most moral army in the world and how horrible everyone and everything else is, which is never their fault and an offense to even suggest, then they prefer no festival.

And then they wonder why people have no love or respect for them.

I bet if I made two big signs.
One saying 'Jews are shite' and the other saying 'Aussies are shite'
And went and took turns holding up those signs for passing motorists
I bet that saying 'Aussies are shite' would be perfectly acceptable.
But that I'd be carted off by the cops for other one in about 15 minutes.

Antisemitism appears to eat away the brains of people suffering from the condition.

Board members quit Adelaide Festival as dumped writer calls in lawyer
http://www.smh.com.au/national/palestinian-australian-writer-calls-in-lawyer-as-adelaide-festival-fallout-grows-20260111-p5nt5q.html

>>The Adelaide Festival board is now made up of Tracey Whiting, Leesa Chesser, Mary Couros, Brenton Cox and Jennifer Fuller (government observer). Chesser, a former South Australian state MP was a co-convener of the Parliamentary Friends of Israel group, established in 2014.

Sydney-based Abdel-Fattah had been scheduled to speak about her new novel, Discipline, which examines ideas of truth and censorship. In recent years, she has come under fire for past social media posts which said Zionists had “no claim to cultural safety” and that institutions that considered “fragile feelings of Zionists” were “abhorrent”.

She has also been criticised for use of an image of a parachutist under the Palestinian flag which she made her Facebook profile photo the day after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Adelaide Writers’ Week sits under the banner of the Adelaide Festival.

Louise Adler, who has helmed the writers’ week to great acclaim for the past three years, has not spoken publicly since the decision.

Jeremy Leibler, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, said the decision to withdraw Abdel-Fattah’s invitation was correct.

“It is beyond comprehension how they extended the invitation in the first place to someone who has called for Zionists ... to have no cultural safety in this country,” he said. “Someone who days after the worst terrorist attack on Jewish civilians [October 7] that included the rape, murder and kidnapping of civilians, celebrated it as resistance.”<<