Adelaide – Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has slammed the Adelaide Writers’ Week for allowing two “atrocious” antisemite guests to speak at the event, calling it an “appalling lack of judgement”.
Mr Ryvchin refers to Palestinian author Mohammed El-Kurd and Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa, who have both expressed controversial views about Ukrainian’s President and Israel.
Ms Abulhawa previously tweeted a call to “dismantle Israel”, calling it a “colonial nation of degenerates”.
“Her tweets are vicious; they incite violence and hatred, they call for a tax of civilians, they call for the destruction of a sovereign state,” Mr Ryvchin told Sky News host Sharri Markson.
“This isn’t a one-off – this is a pattern of behaviour.”
