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44 internationally-acclaimed writers have signed a petition supporting the campaign of Palestinian villagers
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Daily Telegraph:
Ian McEwan, John le Carré and Julian Barnes are among British authors backing impoverished Palestinian villagers against Israeli army attempts to evict them to make way for a shooting range. They are among a coalition of 44 internationally-acclaimed writers to have signed a petition supporting the campaign of around 1,300 inhabitants of eight West Bank hamlets to remain in their homes. The villagers - many of whom live in caves – were to confront Israel's armed forces in the Israeli supreme court in 'Jerusalem' (occupied al-Quds) on Monday. They are seeking to defeat the plan to demolish the primitive villages in the South 'Hebron' (al-Khalil) Hills, where their families have lived since the 19th century. The 44 writers - who also include five Nobel Prize winners, among them the Turkish novelist, Orhan Pamuk, as well as Philip Roth, Yann Martell and Roddy Doyle - condemn the army's plan as "a shameful policy that must end". Linda Grant, Nicholas Blincoe and Neil Gaiman are the other British writers to have signed the petition. The authors' declaration voices supports for an earlier petition signed by 25 leading Israeli writers that demanded an end to the villagers' "unceasing harassment" by the army and Jewish settlers. |
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