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Well, isn’t this just a banner week for dodging anti-Semitic bullets? First the LARPing goons of the National Socialist Network announce their disbandment, then yet another lefty Jew-hate festival folds. All we need now is for the Greens to get de-registered and the Lakemba mosque to get struck by a meteorite, and I’ll know for sure there really is a God.
Dozens of writers have pulled out of the Adelaide Writers’ Week after it dropped a Palestinian author, Randa Abdel-Fattah, from the program due to “cultural sensitivities” following the Bondi Beach terrorist attack.
The Adelaide Festival Board yesterday announced it had cancelled her scheduled appearance at the February 28 to March 5 event in light of promoting social cohesion.
In other words, platforming a deranged nutbar who’s been bellowing anti-Semitic hate speech for the past two years isn’t a good look, even for a lefty Two Minutes of Hate. Like most modern anti-Semites, of course, Abdel-Fattah doesn’t even have the basic honesty to spout her Jew-hate openly. Instead, she hides behind the flimsy euphemism of ‘Zionism’, which is, of course, nothing more than the belief that Jews have a right to self-determination in their ancient homelands.
Abdel-Fattah faced sustained criticism over a previous comment she made, saying Zionists had “no claim or right to cultural safety”.
That’s the least of her unhinged hate. Abdel-Fattah was also caught on video leading little children in a chant calling for “intifada” – that is, violence against Jews. The terror tots were also coached in other anti-Israel slogans.
Just the sort of creep who’d go down a sturm, oops, storm, at a ‘writer’s festival’.
Meanwhile, the roster of the luvvy left are putting their names down for the Nazi List.
“I believe this statement, and the board’s censorship, to be dangerous, inflammatory, and a broad threat to Australian writers and freedom of speech,” Maxine Beneba Clarke, co-author of Eleven Words for Love, said.
“It is a gross act of discrimination and censorship I can in no way agree with, and I will therefore be withdrawing from this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week unless Dr Abdel-Fattah’s place in the program is reinstated,” Hannah Kent, author of Always Home, Always Homesick, said.
Others who cancelled their appearance at the event include star British author Zadie Smith as well as Percival Everett, Hannah Ferguson, Jane Caro, Amy McQuire, Peter FitzSimons, Vanessa Turnbull Roberts, Karen Wyld and Chelsea Watego.
Make note of their names. Remember who sided with violent anti-Semitism when the time came. These scum like to brag about ‘the right side of history’, well, it’s up to us to make sure posterity never forgets just which side they stood on.
And pop the champagne at dodging yet another bullet.
The growing list of dozens of figures who have since withdrawn now extends to former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Please. Stop. There’s only so much euphoria I can take.
