The future of a leading Australian arts festival hangs in the balance after former New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern became the latest prominent figure to pull out in solidarity with a Palestinian writer.
The future of a leading Australian arts festival hangs in the balance after former New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern became the latest prominent figure to pull out in solidarity with a Palestinian writer.
She’s the best PM a neighboring country and major trading partner ever had and a shitload of people in the region and around the world still admire her. Plus the issue leading to a boycott was a discriminatory political decision by the festival.
Writer or not, that means that her withdrawing matters and is thus her doing the right thing as usual.