In less than 48 hours more than 5,000 authors, book workers, and publishers—including many of the most prominent names in the publishing world—signed on to our collective campaign to commit to an anti-apartheid boycott of complicit Israeli publishing institutions that uphold and whitewash the unfolding genocide of Palestinians.
Alongside our collaborators—Books Against Genocide, Bookworkers for a Free Palestine, Fossil Free Books, Palestine Festival of Literature, and Writers Against the War on Gaza—we have been blown over by the overwhelmingly positive response and moved by a volume of signatories that we can hardly keep up with. Translations of the letter of commitment have been offered up by publishers from around the world, who have been sharing it through their own networks. The workers of the publishing world say no to genocide and are ready to wield their collective power. ….more
