🇿🇦 South Africa 6d ago · Faizel Patel

SA’s Nobel laureate JM Coetzee snubs Jerusalem festival, denounces Israel’s Gaza actions

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SA’s Nobel laureate JM Coetzee snubs Jerusalem festival, denounces Israel’s Gaza actions
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South African Nobel Prize-winning laureate JM Coetzee has snubbed an invitation to the 14th International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, citing Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.



According to the festival director, Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler, Coetzee’s refusal was based on his view that Israel has been conducting a campaign of genocide in Gaza that is disproportionate to the 7 October attacks by Hamas.



‘Genocide’



Tzaisler revealed that Coetzee wrote an

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