{"id":345311,"date":"2026-01-09T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=345311"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:34:28","slug":"adelaide-festival-cancels-author-appearance-amid-bondi-grief-triggers-writer-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=345311","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Festival Cancels Author Appearance Amid Bondi Grief, Triggers Writer Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The board announced the cancellation on Thursday, stressing no link between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=abdel-fattah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Abdel-Fattah\">Abdel-Fattah<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=329520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Multiple dead as gunmen attack public on Bondi Beach Sydney (Video)\">December 14, 2025, ISIS-inspired shooting at a Hanukkah festival<\/a>, but pointed to her 2023 rally chants like &#8216;globalise the intifada&#8217; amid national trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdel-Fattah called it anti-Palestinian racism and censorship, while over a dozen writers\u2014including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=jane-caro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jane Caro\">Jane Caro<\/a>, Peter Greste, Maxine Beneba Clarke, and Omar Musa\u2014withdrew in protest, alongside at least one sponsor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"360\" data-id=\"345313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image_2026-01-09_114347257.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image_2026-01-09_114347257.png 260w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image_2026-01-09_114347257-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"360\" data-id=\"345312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.png 290w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas supported the board for prioritising cultural safety, highlighting tensions over free speech and community cohesion as the February 27 to March 15 festival presses on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdel-Fattah called it anti-Palestinian racism and censorship, while over a dozen writers\u2014including Jane Caro, Peter Greste, Maxine Beneba Clarke, and Omar Musa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":345325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[19194,265,19195,19197],"class_list":["post-345311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-abdel-fattah","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-writers-festival","tag-jane-caro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345331,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345311\/revisions\/345331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}