Organisers at Adelaide Writers Week (AWW) have been under immense pressure to withdraw two Palestinian speakers, poet Mohammed El-Kurd and and author Susan Abulhawa, for their views on Zionism and Israel as well as Abulhawa’s stance on the Russia-Ukraine war. Zionist outrage had been mobilised, sponsors have withdrawn, and politicians have called for a boycott of the festival. In the aftermath of calls to boycott, and a major Australian law firm withdrawing sponsorship, many have argued that the efforts to cancel these speakers are a violation of freedom of speech and antithetical to the values of a liberal democracy. However, whilst these responses are well meaning, t
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