Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has slammed the Adelaide Writers’ Week for allowing two “atrocious” anti-Semite 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.
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