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Nobel and Pulitzer Winners Denounce "Dangerous" Israel Cultural Boycott
(Guardian-UK) Nadia Khomami - The letter released by the nonprofit Creative Community For Peace, which campaigns against cultural boycotts of Israel, states: "We continue to be shocked and disappointed to see members of the literary community harass and ostracize their colleagues because they don't share a one-sided narrative in response to the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust." "Israel is fighting existential wars against Hamas and Hizbullah, both U.S., UK, and EU-designated terrorist groups. The exclusion of anyone who doesn't unilaterally condemn Israel is an inversion of morality and an obfuscation of reality." History was "full of examples of self-righteous sects, movements and cults who have used short-lived moments of power to enforce their vision of purity, to persecute, exclude, boycott and intimidate those with whom they disagreed, who made lists of people with 'bad' views, who burned 'sinful' books (and sometimes 'sinful' people)."