Over 7,000 authors and book workers launch ‘historic’ boycott against 'complicit' Israeli publishers

Over 7,000 writers and book industry workers have joined forces for the largest boycott in history against Israeli literary institutions "complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people", according to the Palestine Festival of Literature, an annual event held throughout the occupied West Bank.

The signatories include winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Giller Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, Miles Franklin Award, and National Book Award and editors at each of the “big five” publishing houses and many independent publishers.

The list of signatories includes Israeli authors who stand against Israel's genocidal actions.

The joint statement demands these institutions "denounce and distance themselves from Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime" and "affirm the full protected rights of the Palestinian people under international law, including the right of return".

7,000 authors and book workers have now joined the boycott of complicit Israeli literary institutions

Upon its release on October 28th, 2024, the public letter announcing the campaign already constituted the largest boycott against Israeli cultural institutions in history.… pic.twitter.com/fzL7NwmZht

— Palestine Festival of Literature (@PalFest) December 16, 2024