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.

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    9 days ago

    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.