About Adelaide Writers' Week ...
After meeting with initial success, an attempt by Zionist critics to have Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah removed from the line-up for the event backfired spectacularly when the vast majority of other writers attending AWW withdrew in solidarity. Nek minnit, the Adelaide Festival Corporation Board responsible for rescinding the invitation imploded, a new Board was appointed, the previous Board's initial, cack-handed 'apology' to Abdel-Fattah was withdrawn and a fuller apology by the new Board was offered, along with an invitation to Abdel-Fattah return to address next year's AWW. Two matters that remain unresolved are the resignation of AWW director Louise Adler and a potential defamation case brought by Abdel-Fattah against South Australian state premier Peter Malinauskas, who made some c00ked commentary of his own about why Abdel-Fattah was, in his view, rightly removed from the AWW line-up by the Board.
In summary, this is the latest in a long series of political interventions by Zionists and their allies into the Australian cultural sphere aimed at censoring or otherwise repressing Palestinian and other voices critical of the genocide in Gaza, but the first to witness a determined, successful but also popular rebuttal in very quick time.
Or at least, that's what I conclude at this juncture.
slackbastard
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Peter Malinauskas is the Shoppie premier of South Australia, and the bloke who informed the Adelaide Festival Corporation Board (RIP) that it should rescind its invitation to Randa Abdel-Fattah to speak at Adelaide Writers' Week (RIP).
A YUGE fan of golf, especially the sports-washing LIV Golf tournament sponsored by the chop-chop Saudi Arabian dicktatorshit (in which Catholics like himself are forced to worship in secret), the silly bugger doesn't seem to be much of a fan of books, or of those who write them. Having done his bit to ensure that the AWW went kaput, he's also earned himself:
'a legal notice from the Palestinian writer and academic at the centre of the Adelaide writers’ week maelstrom. On Wednesday, lawyers acting for Randa Abdel-Fattah served a formal concerns notice for defamation to the premier, suggesting the fallout from her cancellation from the 2026 writers’ week – which is itself is [sic] now cancelled – is far from over.'
Interviewed by Michael Rowland for the ABC this week, Mr Malinauskas inveighed against Abdel-Fattah's claim that Zionism should not be afforded 'cultural safety' but, sadly, did not define what he understood by this term. In August last year, he also denounced 'woke', again without seeming to define what is meant by this term, understanding its origins, or why it might appeal to some young people, including *gasp* young men.
Anyone for golf?