The decision to drop Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week, followed by calls from fellow writers to boycott the festival, is not an isolated event. The episode encapsulates a wider discomfort within cultural institutions when confronted with voices that challenge prevailing political orthodoxies, particularly on Palestine.

The notion that literature, art and culture exist in some apolitical vacuum has always been a........

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