ecurity industries”.
But then so, apparently, do companies such as the chip manufacturer Nvidia and Alphabet, Google’s parent company. By this standard pretty much anyone who uses the internet is “linked” to Israeli “genocide” and anyone with shares in any stock market tracker fund is doubtless doubly implicated.
It is of course, in that over-worked but useful phrase, virtue-signaling – a vice to which the literary world seems particularly prone.
From the JC:
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), a legal advocacy group, has accused the letter circulated by Fossil Free Books (FFB) of being “plainly discriminatory against Israelis”, citing the UK Equality Act 2010 and other discriminatory legislation from around the world.
In a letter to the Publishers Association, Jonathan Turner, Chief Executive of UKLFI, said: “This boycott is plainly discriminatory against Israelis. The authors do not impose similar conditions on publishers, festivals, literary agencies or publications of any other nationality.
“The boycott is also contrary to laws prohibiting discrimination on grounds of nationality in many other countries around the world… most US States have adopted legislation providing for sanctions against participants in boycotts targeting Israel.”
He also said the letter made false allegations about Israel, such as accusing the country of genocide, despite the former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) clarifying in a BBC interview that the court did not decide that there was a plausible case of genocide on the part of Israel, as had been incorrectly reported in some media.
The letter also puts the Palestinian death toll at 43,362 without saying that the figure comes from the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza, whose data, Turner says, “has been shown to be fabricated and manipulated”.
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