Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux & Others Boycott Israeli Publishers

Authors and literary professionals, including the French Nobel Prinze winner Annie Ernaux, Arundhati Roy and others have signed a pledge to boycott Israeli publishers ‘complicit’ in the ongoing genocide in Palestinian territories.

In the pledge which has been signed by over 1,000 writers, the authors have claimed: “We cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement”. They further noted that they will not work with Israeli cultural institutions who are either complicit in the genocide or have remained silent spectators of the oppression against the Palestinian people.

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Among renowned signatories are French Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, Indian author Arundhati Roy, Irish author and long-standing critic of Israeli policies Sally Rooney, Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ethiopian-American writer Maaza Mengiste. The pledge has reportedly been organized by six advocacy groups namely Books Against Genocide, The Palestine Festival of Literature, and others. According to a report by Turkish public broadcaster TRT World, the advocacy groups reviewed nearly ninety-eight publishers of which only one – November Books – was found to openly oppose the inequality and apartheid in the region.

Organizers behind the open letter have also claimed that many Israeli publishing houses such as Modan Publishing and Bar-Ilan University Press, not only openly support the occupation but also produce propaganda books on orders of the Israeli Defense Ministry and hand out prizes for books that advocate ‘land building and settlement’ on Palestinian territory in partnership with the Jewish National Fund.

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The letter further states that culture has played “an integral role in normalizing these injustices” simultaneously urging publishers, editors, and agents working on such agendas to recognize their “moral responsibility” and to end their engagements with the Israeli state as well as other institutions complicit in the genocide.

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“We will not work with Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians,” the letter reads. / Photo: AP

Issuing a statement against the open letter, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has argued that the call to boycott is a clear discrimination against Israeli institutions and people by signaling them out. THE UKLFI further warned against potential legal repercussions under anti-discrimination laws.

On the other hand, PalFest co-founder Omar Robert Hamilton has dismissed the UKLFI’s statement as “morally bankrupt”.

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