Author Lana Bastašić said she would no longer work with German publishing house S. Fischer Verlag because the company had failed to speak against the “genocide happening in Gaza” or oppose censorship of pro-Palestinian views in Germany, Al Jazeera reports.
In a statement on Instagram, Bastašić said the publishing house, which claims to oppose antisemitism and racism in its mission statement, had not come to the defence of many German Jews who lost their jobs or were slandered because of their dissenting views.
She also said the publishing house had attempted to use the Gaza crisis to “score political points” in a way that makes Muslim immigrants “unsafe”.
“Given the global political context we find ourselves in right now, I feel that it is my moral and ethical duty to terminate my contracts with S. Fischer,” said Bastašić.
