Summary
Co-author, with Omar Barghouti, of Chapter 8 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, the open letter to Nadine Gordimer of April 28, 2008 (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, PDF p.137).
Details
- The letter argues that attending a government-sponsored Israeli writers’ festival perpetuates the denial of Palestinian writers’ rights, including freedom of expression and travel (PDF p.137-138).
- The letter concludes by recalling Gordimer’s own lobbying, with Edward Said, of Susan Sontag to reject the Jerusalem Prize, and by charging that participation in the “Israel at 60” festival season whitewashes the Nakba (PDF p.139).
- Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope also names Haidar Eid in its Gaza material (see that source’s pages).
Related pages
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, Nadine Gordimer, Cultural boycott, Omar Barghouti