Cultural boycott: note these names and note the names of those who responded

Lightening up my library by getting rid of junk

My personal library is quite extensive, but I own only a few books by the authors who signed this disgraceful letter that goes against the goals of literary tradition. I’m disposing of the highlighted names but will keep this list handy to ensure I never buy or read another word by these so-called authors (most of whom are entirely unknown to me).

Please read to the end and take note of the names of those who responded to this atrocity and deserve our utmost respect.

Below piece is by Dan Sheehan

October 28, 2024

Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kaveh Akbar, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, Téa Obreht, Peter Carey, Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Mary Gaitskill, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Justin Torres, Raven Leilani, Susan Abulhawa, Valeria Luiselli, Jia Tolentino, Ben Lerner, Jonathan Lethem, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste, China Miéville, Torrey Peters, Max Porter, Miriam Toews, Leslie Jamison, Layli Long Soldier, and Ocean Vuong are among the hundreds of prominent authors who have signed an open letter pledging not to work with “Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.”

The letter (published in its entirety below) represents perhaps the most forceful statement of condemnation—and largest commitment to cultural boycott—ever made by the global literary community with regard to the Israeli cultural sector:

This is a genocide, as leading expert scholars and institutions have been saying for months. Israeli officials speak plainly of their motivations to eliminate the population of Gaza, to make Palestinian statehood impossible, and to seize Palestinian land. This follows 75 years of displacement, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

Culture has played an integral role in normalizing these injustices. Israeli cultural institutions, often working directly with the state, have been crucial in obfuscating, disguising and artwashing the dispossession and oppression of millions of Palestinians for decades.

We have a role to play. We cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement. This was the position taken by countless authors against South Africa; it was their contribution to the struggle against apartheid there.

Therefore: we will not work with Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.

The letter has been signed by multiple winners of, and finalists for, almost every major literary award in the world—from the Booker to the Pulitzer, the National Book Award to the Women’s Prize for Fiction—and closes with a call to action for all in the book world:

To work with these institutions is to harm Palestinians, and so we call on our fellow writers, translators, illustrators and book workers to join us in this pledge. We call on our publishers, editors and agents to join us in taking a stand, in recognising our own involvement, our own moral responsibility and to stop engaging with the Israeli state and with complicit Israeli institutions.
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Here is the letter in full:

We, as writers, publishers, literary festival workers, and other book workers, publish this letter as we face the most profound moral, political and cultural crisis of the 21st century. The overwhelming injustice faced by the Palestinians cannot be denied. The current war has entered our homes and pierced our hearts.

The emergency is here: Israel has made Gaza unlivable. It is not possible to know exactly how many Palestinians Israel has killed since October, because Israel has destroyed all infrastructure, including the ability to count and bury the dead. We do know that Israel has killed, at the very least, 43,362 Palestinians in Gaza since October and that this is the biggest war on children this century.

This is a genocide, as leading expert scholars and institutions have been saying for months. Israeli officials speak plainly of their motivations to eliminate the population of Gaza, to make Palestinian statehood impossible, and to seize Palestinian land. This follows 75 years of displacement, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

Culture has played an integral role in normalizing these injustices. Israeli cultural institutions, often working directly with the state, have been crucial in obfuscating, disguising and artwashing the dispossession and oppression of millions of Palestinians for decades.

We have a role to play. We cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement. This was the position taken by countless authors against South Africa; it was their contribution to the struggle against apartheid there.

Therefore: we will not work with Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians. We will not cooperate with Israeli institutions including publishers, festivals, literary agencies and publications that:

A) Are complicit in violating Palestinian rights, including through discriminatory policies and practices or by whitewashing and justifying Israel’s occupation, apartheid or genocide, or

B) Have never publicly recognized the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people as enshrined in international law.

To work with these institutions is to harm Palestinians, and so we call on our fellow writers, translators, illustrators and book workers to join us in this pledge. We call on our publishers, editors and agents to join us in taking a stand, in recognising our own involvement, our own moral responsibility and to stop engaging with the Israeli state and with complicit Israeli institutions.

Initiating Signatories [you can find the full list of signatories here],

Fatin Abbas
Taiba Abbas
Nuzhat Abbas
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Amy Abdelnoor
Sandy Abdelrahman
Idil Abdillahi
Mohamed Abdou
Hassan Abdulrazzak
Omar Abed
Jordan Abel
Aria Aber
Charlotte Abotsi
Alex Abraham
George Abraham
Susan Abulhawa
Maan Abutaleb
Samuel Ace
Tendayi Emily Achiume
Pip Adam
Brittany Adames
Juana Adcock
Amanda Addison
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nancy Agabian
Pragya Agarwal
Tolu Agbelusi
Zena Agha
Silvia Aguilera
Aamina Ahmad
Rukhsana Ahmad
Naylah Ahmed
Shahnaz Ahsan
Cina Aissa
Jim Aitken
Amna A. Akbar
Kaveh Akbar
Sascha Akhtar
Vasiliki Albedo
Ammiel Alcalay
Kathleen Alcott
Aleksander Aleksander
Michelle Alexander
Kristen Vida Alfaro
Farah Ali
Kazim Ali
Hassan Ali
Najwa Ali
Sabrina Ali
Salma Ali
Sarah Ghazal Ali
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Kip Alizadeh
San Alland
Ashleigh Allen
Esther Allen
Rachael Allen
Lulu Allison
Ekbal Alothaimeen
Yazan Al-Saadi
Yassin Alsalman
Hanan Al-Shaykh
Lilliam Eugenia Gómez Álvarez
Miguel Álvarez Sánchez
Raquel Alvarez Sanchez
Hatem Aly
Alia Alzougbi
Justice Ameer
Suad Amiry
Sarah Amsler
Tahmima Anam
Anthony Anaxagorou
Darran Anderson
Sophie Anserson
Abi Andrews
Chris Andrews
Noah Angell
Callum Angus
Aileen Angsutorn
Sinan Antoon
Raymond Antrobus
Marni Appleton
Gina Apostol
Laura Arau
Nilson Araujo de Souza
Farhaana Arefin
John Manuel Arias
Julia Armfield
Amy Arnold
Mirene Arsanios
Ayan Artan
Claire Askew
Marigold Atkey
Polly Atkin
Jennifer Atkins
Jacqueline Atta-Hayford
James Attlee
Matthew Austin
Makram Ayache
MiMi Aye
Sarah Aziza
Hajjar Baban
Indie Laras Bacas
Tareq Baconi
Danielle Badra
Valérie Bah
Bilal Baig
Priya Bains
Jennifer Baker
Jo Baker
Nikkitha Bakshani
Sita Balani
Emily Balistrieri
Ibtisam Barakat
Frank Barakat
J. Mae Barizo
Lana Barkaei
Tim Barker
Frankie Barnet
Cassandra Barnett
Damian Barr
Emily Barr
Ania Bas
Lana Bastasic
Liam Bates
Rim Battal
Alyssa Battistoni
Jumana Bayeh
Richard Beck
Sarona Bedwan
Hannah Beer
Henry Bell
Kobby Ben Ben
Ronan Bennett
Ariana Benson
Sophie Benson
Laura van den Berg
Franco Berardi Bifo
Bennet Bergman
David Bergen
Chase Berggrun
Jay Bernard
Susan Bernofsky
Sarah Bernstein
Omar Berrada
Marie-Helene Bertino
Rahul Bery
Deepa Bhasthi
Gargi Bhattacharyya
Fatima Bhutto
Rose Biggin
Joanna Biggs
Irene Bindi
Maya Binyam
Beverley Birch
Brandi Bird
Hera Lindsay Bird
Farid Bitar
Adelheid Bjornlie
Sin Blaché
Grace Blakeley
A K Blakemore
Nicholas Blincoe
Selina Boan
Lindsey Boldt
Yolanda Bonnell
Naomi Booth
Patricia Borlenghi
Houria Bouteldja
Felix Chau Bradley
Gracie Mae Bradley
Katie Bradshaw
Solomon Brager
Nathaniel Braia
Beth Brambling
Dionne Brand
James Bridle
Elizabeth Briggs
Octavia Bright
Victoria Brittain
Rula Jones Brock
Marianna Brooker
Jennifer Brough
Jericho Brown
Kerry Donovan Brown
Simone Browne
Natascha Bruce
Anca Bucur
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Judith Butler
Alex Caan
Troy Cabida
Amina Cain
Danny Caine
Felicity Callard
Jen Calleja
Anje Monte Calvo
Marta Fernández Campa
Rosa Campbell
Olga Campofreda
Paul Cannon
Anthony V. Capildeo
Anna Carastathis
Peter Carey
Daragh Carville
Brad Casey
Maya Caspari
Joyoti Grech Cato
Fesal Chain
Jody Chan
Vajra Chandrasekera
Jade Chang
Hayan Charara
Jos Charles
Ruth Charnock
Amit Chaudhury
Cathy Linh Che
Alexander Chee
Melissa Chemam
Anelise Chen
Ching-In Chen
Lisa Hsiao Chen
Tim Tim Cheng
Heerahn Cheon
Selim-a Atallah Chettaoui
Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
Anne Chisholm
Satinder Kaur Chohan
Mona Chollet
Cat Chong
Chrysanthemum
Bora Chung
Gina Chung
Tice Cin
Jo Blair Cipriano
Susannah Clapp
Eliza Clark
Caro Clarke
John Clifford
Dave Coates
Lucy Coats
Lindsey Collen
Bea Colley
Peter Collins
David Colmer
Joey Connolly
Rachel Connolly
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Swithun Cooper
Hannah Copley
Jonah Corne
Jacqui Cornetta
Rio Cortez
Mary Costello
Glen Coulthard
Leah Cowan
Molly Crabapple
Raymond Craib
Mac Crane
Andy Croft
Paul Ian Cross
Tess Cullity
Harriet Cummings
Doreen Cunningham
Faye Cura
Grace Curtis
Lauren Aimee Curtis
Sarah Cypher
Selma Dabbagh
Sky Dair
Gabriel Dalpiaz
William Dalrymple
Alain Damasio
Jared Davidson
Danielle Davis
Jenny Fran Davis
Roisin Davis
Gloria Dawson
Aviah Sarah Day
Eccy de Jonge
Saraid de Silva
Ren Dean
Tricia Dearborn
Siddhartha Deb
Claire Dederer
Sharanya Deepak
Michael DeForge
Trynne Delaney
Lauren Delphe
Jemma Desai
Sharan Dhaliwal
Junot Díaz
Natalie Diaz
Susannah Dickey
Ellen Dillon
Brian Dillon
Nicola Dinan
Merima Dizdarević
Farzana Doctor
Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Ted Dodson
Anna Doherty
Michael Donkor
Sarah Dowling
Nicky Downes
Erin Doyle
Ian Dreiblatt
Sarah Driver
Sophie Drukman-Feldstein
OmiSoore H. Dryden
Sharon Duggal
Lisa Duggan
Cyrus Dunham
Natalie Dunn
Roisin Dunnett
Ben Durham
Carolina Ebeid
Caroline Eden
Martin Edmond
Chikè Frankie Edozien
Ben Ehrenreich
Deborah Eisenberg
Nidhi Zakaria Eipe
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
Nadine El-Enany
Tala El-Fahmawi
Yara El-Ghadban
Walid El Hamamsy
Mirna El Helbawi
Mohammed El-Kurd
Mirna El Mahdy
Yasmin El-Rifae
Inua Ellams
Zetta Elliott
Maia Elsner
Lucie Elven
Soula Emmanuel
Jonathan Emmett
Shareefa Energy
Mercedes Eng
Annie Ernaux
Ninar Esber
Martín Espada
Nick Estes
Sarala Estruch
Diana Evans
Gareth Evans
Percival Everett
Eve L. Ewing
Keeyana Ezna (Kezna Dalz)
Allegra Le Fanu
David Farr
Shon Faye
Sonia Fayman
Melissa Febos
Silvia Federici
Elaine Feeney
Anita Felicelli
Camonghne Felix
Jordan Felkey
Megan Fernandes
Ferrao
Julie Finidori
Susan Finlay
Samuel Fisher
Emily Fitzell
Fernando A. Flores
Genessee Floressantos
Angela Flournoy
Omar Foda
Ashley Fortier
Sesshu Foster
Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Dan Fox
Lorna Scott Fox
Livia Franchini
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Indigo Freeman
Ru Freeman
Talia Freimanis
Sasha Frere-Jones
Connor Frew
Temim Fruchter
Diane Fujino
Oliver Fugler
Elizabeth Fullerton
Aja Gabel
Ellen Gabriel
Kay Gabriel
Mary Gaitskill
Harry Gallon
Shannon Galpin
Jay Gao
Angela Garbes
Marc Garcés
Suzanne Gardinier
Ed Garland
Camryn Garret
Florence Gauthier
Karl Geary
Joma Geneciran
Puloma Ghosh
Nadene Ghouri
Annie Gibson
Harry Josephine Giles
Cassia Gaden Gilmartin
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Fausto Giudice
Nicholas Glastonbury
Carly Gledhill
Rory Gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson
Brannavan Gnanalingam
Katie Goh
Em Goldman
Martin Gollan
Noam Gonick
Gia Gonzales
Elisa Gonzalez
Avery Gordon
Sylvia Gorelick
Molly Gott
Rebecca Ruth Gould
Niven Govinden
Marlowe Granados
Greg Grandin
Charlotte Geater
Aoife Greenham
Madeleine Grive
Faïza Guène
Amba Guerguerian
Gioia Guerzoni
Guy Gunaratne
Anna Gunin
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Susila Gurusami
Kevin Guyan
Marilyn Hacker
Saleem Haddad
Swapna Haddow
Subhi Hadidi
Jessica Hagedorn
Simon Haines
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Robert Hamberger
Mohsin Hamid
Omar Robert Hamilton
Isabella Hammad
Mohammed Hanif
Kaoutar Harchi
Githa Hariharan
Matef Harmachis
Malcolm Harris
Will Harris
Alison B. Hart
Markus Harwood-Jones
Sabrin Hasbun
Mir Shamsedin Fallah Hashemi
Sarvat Hasin
Tobi Haslett
Janet Hatherley
Owen Hatherley
Alice Hattrick
Naomi Head
Sophia Hembeck
Nadia Henderson
Catherine Hernandez
Etzali Hernández
féi hernandez
Liz Heron
Trevor Herriot
Kit Heyam
layla-roxanne hill
Matt Rowland Hill
Afua Hirsch
Emma Hislop
Bára Hladík
Jean Chen Ho
Hermione Hoby
Jennifer Hodgson
Annie Hodson
Rachel Holmes
Cathy Park Hong
Claire Hong
Amelia Horgan
Tansy E. Hoskins
Andrew Hsiao
Jane Hu
Sally Huband
Mike Huett
Caoilinn Hughes
Femi Hughes
Kelly X. Hui
William Rayfet Hunter
Anton Hur
Amber Husain
Emteaz Hussain
Lizzie Huxley-Jones
Jungeun Hwang
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Mayada Ibrahim
Sabrina Imbler
Saba Imtiaz
Paul Ingram
Mie Inouye
Anne Irwin
Burhana Islam
Hanan Issa
Deepa Iyer
Mira Jacob
Harriet Jae
Sarah Jaffe
Nasim Marie Jafry
Wren James
Leslie Jamison
Randa Jarrar
Tom Jeffreys
Nozizwe Jele
Mike Jempson
Mike Jenkins
Claire Jimenez
Ha Jin
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
Jessica Johns
Daisy Johnson
Evan Johnson
Galen Johnson
Jenny Johnson
Rebecca May Johnson
Caitlin Johnstone
El Jones
Ellen E Jones
Owen Jones
Kira Josefsson
Fady Joudah
Laura Ellen Joyce
Helen Jukes
Park min jung
Loll Jung
Jennifer Kabat
Dina Ahmed Kabil
Elaine Kahn
Taran Kahn
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Donia Kamal
Anjali Kamat
Meena Kandasamy
Malav Lanuga
Balsam Karam
Ghada Karmi
Raghu Karnad
Yumna Kassab
Karim Kattan
Arthur Kaufman
Sophie Monks Kaufman
Navjot Kaur
Rupi Kaur
Sharada Keats
noam keim
Robin D.G. Kelley
Kaie Kellough
Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
Niyati Keni
Peter Kennard
Louise Kenward
Emily Kenway
Jennie Kermode
Amy Key
Porochista Khakpour
Muhammed Ali Khalidi
Hannah Khalil
Amyra El Khalili
Shamus Khan
Shubnum Khan
Tawseef Khan
Michelle Khazaryan
Lydia Kiesling
Crystal Hana Kim
SJ Kim
Shilo Kino
Ana Kinsella
Gary Kinsman
Blue Kirkhope
Alyson Kissner
Vanessa Kisuule
Naomi Klein
Cecilia Knapp
Rosalie Knecht
Lisa Ko
Claire Kohda
Jamil Jan Kochai
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Gowri Koneswaran
Amelia Kraigher
Kate Kremer
Michelle de Kretser
Nancy Kricorian
Charlot Kristensen
Mark Krotov
Zaffar Kunial
Hari Kunzru
Rachel Kushner
Grace Kwan
Abdellatif Laabi
Souad Labbize
Armelle Laborie-Sivan
Catherine Lacey
Daisy Lafarge
Marion Olharan Lagan
Sabinha Lagoun
Jhumpa Lahiri
Léopold Lambert
Asma Lamrabet
Charles Lang
Michael Langan
Patrick Langley
Sarah Lasoye
Davide Gallo Lassere
Andrea Lawlor
Tim Lawrence
Kiese Laymon
Jessica J. Lee
Matthew Lee
Soje Lee
Sara Lefsyk
Eugenia Leigh
Raven Leilani
Mica Lemiski
Ben Lerner
Céline Leroy
Jonathan Lethem
Anna Leventhal
Sophie Lewis
Daryl Li
Erika Olofsson Liljedahl
Sasha Lilley
Thea Lim
Ursula Lindsey
David Ross Linklater
Jazmine Linklater
Robert Liu-Trujillo
Mikaela Loach
Kirsty Logan
Amber Lone
Layli Long Soldier
Cherise Lopes-Baker
Alan Pelaez Lopez
Kyle Carrero Lopez
Nora Loreto
Roberto Lovato
Lia lovenitti
Rebecca Lowe
Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Emily Lee Luan
Canisia Lubrin
Melissa Lucashenko
Valeria Luiselli
Ed Luker
Len Lukowski
Tariq Luthun
lisa minerva luxx
Alexis Lykiard
Eadaoin Lynch
Rosa Lyster
Maatin
Helen Macdonald
Robert Macfarlane
Carmen Maria Machado
Kama La Mackerel
Weston MacLeod
Guy Maddin
Simon Maddrell
Michael Magee
Sabrina Mahfouz
Michael Malay
Ayisha Malik
Rachel Malik
Emanuela Maltese
Bo Mandeville
Preethi Manuel
Olivier Marboeuf
Spyros Marchetos
Miriam Margolyes
Lauren Markham
Francisco Márquez
Andrew Martin
Manjula Martin
Ariél M. Martinez
Vanessa Martina-Silva
Ahmed Masoud
Patricia Massay
Noreen Masud
Hisham Matar
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Ioanna Mavrou
So Mayer
Robyn Maynard
Kelli McAdams
Tim McCaskell
Sophie McCreesh
Breanna J. McDaniel
Jen McDerra
Martine McDonagh
MK McGrath
Fiona Kelly McGregor
Jon McGregor
Lisa McInerney
Kimberly McIntosh
Oisín McKenna
Rachel McKibbens
Matthew McNaught
Cassie McQuater
Don Mee Choi
Susana Medina
Shafik Meghji
Jamal Mehmood
Pauline Melville
Maaza Mengiste
Juliana Mensah
Lucy Mercer
Iman Mersal
Lina Meruane
Philip Metres
China Miéville
Jon Lindsay Miles
Iulia Militaru
James Miller
John Douglas Miller
Maggie Millner
Nina Millns
Bridget Minamore
Adrian Minckley
John Mingay
Frankie Miren
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Pankaj Mishra
Peter Mitchell
Hussein Mitha
Monique Mojica
Kagiso Lesego Molope
Nadine Monem
Adam Moody
Nathan Alexander Moore
Caroline Moorehead
Alan Morrison
Ghazal Mosadeq
Maria Motunrayo Adebisi
Hannah Moushabeck
Michel S. Moushabeck
Dwi Rahmad Muhtaman
Neel Mukherjee
Susan Muaddi Darraj
Alex Mullarky
Lorna Munro
Nora Lester Murad
Sahar Muradi
Rob Myatt
Sara Mychkine
Taiyo Na
Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi
Noor Naga
David Naimon
Ambika Nair
Ron Naiweld
Taghreed Aref Najjar
mélie boltz nasr
Susheila Nasta
Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
Jennifer Neal
Nawara Negm
Cecily Nicholson
Shanice Nicole
Nic Nicoludis
Kerem Nisancioglu
Rémy Ngamije
Joshua Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mark Nowak
Clara Nubile
Matteo Nucci
Jonathan Nunn
N S Nuseibeh
Alice Nuttall
Téa Obreht
Richard O’Brien
Anthony Christian Ocampo
Mark O’Connell
Meaghan O’Connell
Sinéad O’Hart
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Nathalie Olah
Daniel José Older
Lola Olufemi
Hussein Omar
Ondjaki
Troy Onyango
Andrés N. Ordorica
Chibbi Orduna
Ian O’Reilly
Kenan Orhan
Amanda Orozco
Fiona O’Rourke
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Alice Oswald
Peter Oswald
Naomi Paik
Patty Paine
Allison Tamarkin Paller
Angela Palm
Gianfranco Pancino
Stan Papoulias
Ajay Parasram
George Parker
Jen Parker
Morgan Parker
Heather Parry
Shailja Patel
Vikki Patis
K Patrick
Lara Pawson
Martha Paynter
Jeda Pearl
Jonathan Pelham
Telka Pelova
Nicola Penfold
Lee Pepper
Rebecca Perry
Zoë Perry
Holly Pester
Gordon Peters
Torrey Peters
Andreas Petrossiants
Richard Phoenix
Laura Di Pietro
Alycia Pirmohamed
Hazel Jane Plante
Edward Plett
Casey Plett
Joanna Pocock
Justine Podur
Ethel Baraona Pohl
Clare Pollard
Gabriel Polley
Max Porter
Nina Mingya Powles
Pratyusha
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Cameron Price
Devon Price
Rosie Price
Joy Priest
Alexandra Pringle
Mira Ptacin
Jasbir Puar
E.R. Pulgar
Derecka Purnell
Marcia Lynx Qualey
Michael Quille
Linda Quiquivix
Zaynah Qutubuddin
Jamali Rad
Monika Radojevic
Nat Raha
Sue Rainsford
Monisha Rajesh
Shivanee Ramlochan
Ravinder Randhawa
Rahul Rao
Clarie Ratinon
Vidyan Ravinthiran
Kate Rawles
Cathy Reay
Jini Reddy
Francesca Reece
Martin Reed
Will Rees
Dave Rendle
Nausicaa Renner
Sarah Resnick
Emma Reynolds
John Reynolds
Jamie Richards
Geoffrey Rickly
Keith Ridgway
Charlotte Lydia Riley
Claude Rioux
Chrissie Roberts
Luke Roberts
Corey Robin
Tom Robinson
Sallyanne Rock
Monique Roffey
Fariha Róisín
Sally Rooney
Sophia K Rosa
Jacqueline Rose
Michael Rosen
Jordy Rosenberg
Gabriel Rosenstock
Tracy Rosenthal
Andrew Ross
Leone Ross
Margaret Ross
Noah Ross
Rhonda Roumani
Heather Rounds
Anita Roy
Arundhati Roy
Ryan Ruby
Chloe Ruthven
Hugh Ryan
Reda Sadiki
Eun Sae (검은새)
Kholod Saghir
Burcu Sahin
Ron Sakolsky
Trish Salah
Aida Salazar
Sara M Saleh
Edward Salem
Mohamed Salmawy
Seif Salmawy
John K Samson
Julia Sanches
Varli Pay Sandi
Nasia Sarwar-Skuse
Ayşegül Savaş
Julian Sayarer
Bobuq Sayed
Laura Scarmoncin
Robin Beth Schaer
James Schamus
Maya Schenwar
Sarah Schulman
Kit Schluter
Bhakti Shringarpure
Susan Schuppli
Claire Schwartz
Cam Scott
Grayson Scott
Walter Scott
Waithera Sebatindira
Kenza Sefrioui
Namwali Serpell
Richard Seymour
Sarah Shaffi
Hamid Darwish Shahkaly
Durre Shahwar
Elhum Shakerifar
Kamila Shamsie
Charif Shanahan
Solmaz Sharif
Azad Ashim Sharma
Kashif Sharma-Patel
Cason Sharpe
Christina Sharpe
Clare Shaw
Dan Sheehan
Farhana Sheikh
Shela Sheikh
Jack Shenker
Tyler Shipley
Parini Shroff
Nikesh Shukla
Terisa Siagatonu
Michèle Sibony
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Safiya Sinclair
Sunny Singh
Hamed Sinno
Leona Skene
Johanna Skibsrud
Ryan Skrabalak
Tara Skurtu
Paulo Slachevsky
Alice Slater
Zeina Sleiman
Gillian Slovo
Mike Small
Nichola Smalley
Deborah Smith
Courtney Smyth
Rhona Snelling
Jess X. Snow
Oki Sogumi
Addy Rivera Sonda
Natasha Soobramanien
Ahdaf Soueif
Rae Spoon
Nicola Spurr
Gina Srmabekian
Cath Staincliffe
Alina Stefanescu
Rebecca Stoehill
Degna Stone
Anna Della Subin
Olivia Sudjic
Jaz Sufi
Smokii Sumac
Marsha Swan
Brandon Sward
Kate Sweeney
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Neferti Tadiar
Madiha Tahir
Rana Tahir
Tanaïs
Ginny Tapley Takemori
Preti Taneja
Rebecca Tamás
Ben Tarnoff
David J Tate
Sasha Tate-Howarth
Annie Taylor
Astra Taylor
Joelle Taylor
Nicholas Taylor
Brian Teare
Saeed Teebi
Janne Teller
Matthew Teller
Emily Temple
Jocelyn Tennant
Jacques Testard
Xuanlin Tham
Charles Theonia
Kai Cheng Thom
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Ashley Thorpe
Andrzej Tichý
Lena Tichy
Jenevieve Ting
Shze-Hui Tjoa
Tara Tobler
Miriam Toews
Owen Toews
Naima Tokunow
Jia Tolentino
Samuel Tongue
Mohamed Tonsy
James Tookey
Justin Torres
Joshua Gutterman Tranen
Jessica Traynor
Shash Trevett
Addie Tsai
Birukti Tsige
Tori Tsui
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Aviva Tuffield
Tony Tulathimutte
Lestyn Tyne
Oana Uiorean
Jack Underwood
Emily Unwin
Hanna Thomas Uose
Simran Uppal
Ryan Vance
Angelique Tran Van Sang
Alejandro Varela
Joe Vaughan
MG Vassanji
Françoise Vergès
Katherena Vermette
Margaux Vialleron
Cecilia Vicuna
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Hannah Vincent
James Vincent
Shola Von Reinhold
Clara Vulliamy
Ocean Vuong
Lindsay Wagner
Mirza Waheed
Isabel Waidner
Rinaldo Walcott
Emma Wallace
Nicole Wallace
Joanna Walsh
Zukiswa Wanner
Patricia Sarrafian Ward
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
Noah Warren
Rosie Warren
Raffi Joe Wartanian
Bryan Washington
Nadia Wassef
Michael Waters
Max Weiss
Robert Welbourn
Joma West
Imogen West-Knights
Adam Weymouth
Jessica Widner
Rachel Wiley
Elvia Wilk
Frances Williams
Hattie Williams
Lara Williams
Luke Williams
Jenny Heijun Wills
Mia S. Willis
Kitty Wilson
Lorraine Wilson
jiaquing wilson-yang
James Wilt
Gabriel Winant
Jan Winter
Milo Wipperman
James Womack
Marian Womack
Adam Woods
Jan Woolf
Jacob Wren
Kyle Lucia Wu
Karen Wyld
Frank Wynne
Jessica Widner
Robin Yassin-Kassab
Kieran Yates
Jane Yeh
Jade Young
Eris Young
Nariman Youssef
M.O. Yukael
Juliano Zaffino
Abi Zakarian
Kate Zambreno
Javier Zamora
Haifa Zangana
Nazanin Zarepour
Hannah Zeavin
Ghassan Zeineddine
Alia Trabucco Zeran
Aisha Zia
Rasha Zidan
Issam Zineh
Alex Zucker
Jeffrey Zuckerman

And now the response given by those who have moral and intellectual decency:

Nobel and Pulitzer winners denounce ‘dangerous’ Israel cultural boycott

More than 1,000 well-known figures sign open letter in response to authors pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions over Gaza

Nadia Khomami The Guardian

Wed 30 Oct 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/nobel-and-pulitzer-winners-denounce-israel-culturalboycott

More than 1,000 figures from the literary and entertainment industry – including several Nobel laureates, Pulitzer prize, and Booker prize winners – have signed an open letter against “illiberal and dangerous” cultural boycotts.

Among the signatories of the CCFP letter are Lee Child (creator of the Jack Reacher novels), Booker winner Howard Jacobson, Pulitzer winner David Mamet, Nobel winners Herta Müller and Elfriede Jelinek, historians Simon Schama and Simon Sebag Montefiore, and entertainers Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne and Debra Messing.

The letter states: “We reject the calls to boycott Israeli and Jewish writers, publishers, authors, book festivals and literary agencies, along with those who support, work with, or platform them.

“We continue to be shocked and disappointed to see members of the literary community harass and ostracise their colleagues because they don’t share a one-sided narrative in response to the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

“Israel is fighting existential wars against Hamas and Hezbollah, both US, UK, and European Union-designated terrorist groups. The exclusion of anyone who doesn’t unilaterally condemn Israel is an inversion of morality and an obfuscation of reality.”

The signatories said history was “full of examples of self-righteous sects, movements and cults who have used short-lived moments of power to enforce their vision of purity, to persecute, exclude, boycott and intimidate those with whom they disagreed, who made lists of people with ‘bad’ views, who burned ‘sinful’ books (and sometimes ‘sinful’ people).”

They pointed to various incidents over the past year, including the cancellation of “planned bookstore appearances by Jewish authors” and the publication of “lists of ‘Zionist’ authors to harass” as being “directly in opposition to the liberal values most writers hold sacred. Boycotts against authors and those who work with them is [sic] illiberal and dangerous.”

They said they believed writers, books and festivals “bring people together, transcend boundaries, broaden awareness, open dialogue, and can affect positive change … Regardless of one’s views on the current conflict, boycotts of creatives and creative institutions simply create more divisiveness and foment further hatred.”