Sharri Markson has highlighted the 'dangerous anti-semitism' given 'free rein' and 'applauded' at the Adelaide Writers' Festival.
Sharri Markson used her Wednesday evening editorial to highlight appalling views that were not only “celebrated” at the writers’ festival, but “applauded.”
Markson cited the appearance at the taxpayer-funded festival of Palestinian-American writer Susan Abulhawa and Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd to support her argument. "No one has ever suggested they shouldn't be allowed into Australia. Just that they shouldn't be given a platform for their hate speech at a taxpayer-funded event. But they were," Markson said
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