‘Largest’ cultural boycott against Israeli institutions launches: statement

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More than 1,100 authors have launched “a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people”, a coalition of solidarity groups has said in a press statement, Al Jazeera reports.

The declaration is the biggest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history, it said, adding that “signatories have stated that they cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement”.

Signatories include winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award.

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