{"id":73591,"date":"2019-10-05T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=73591"},"modified":"2019-10-04T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:17:10","slug":"04-05-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=73591","title":{"rendered":"Author stripped of book award over support for Israel boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Kamila Shamsie: Author stripped of book award over support for Israel boycott<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ellie Harrison<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kamila Shamsie ( AFP\/Getty Images )<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The German jury of the Nelly Sachs<\/strong><\/span><\/a> book prize has withdrawn its decision to honour Kamila Shamsie<\/strong><\/span><\/a> with the award, due to her ongoing support for the Boycott, Diverstment, Sanctions (BDS) movement<\/strong><\/span><\/a> against Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the panel had decided to crown the British-Pakistani writer as their latest winner, with praise for how her writing is \u201cbuilding bridges between societies\u201d. However, when they discovered Shamsie supported the BDS movement, they opted to strip her of the accolade.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith its vote for the British writer Kamila Shamsie\u2026 the jury honoured the author\u2019s outstanding literary work,\u201d they said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time, despite prior research, the members of the jury were not aware that the author has been participating in the boycott measures against the Israeli government for its Palestinian policies since 2014.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nelly Sachs prize is worth \u20ac15,000 (\u00a313,000) and champions tolerance, reconciliation and improving cultural relations, with Margaret Atwood<\/strong><\/span><\/a> among the previous winners.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShamsie\u2019s political positioning to actively participate in the cultural boycott as part of the BDS campaign\u2026 is clearly in contradiction to the statutory objectives of the award,\u201d said the jury.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe cultural boycott does not transcend borders, but affects the whole of Israeli society regardless of its actual political and cultural heterogeneity. Kamila Shamsie\u2019s work is also withheld from the Israeli population in this way. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis contrasts with the claim of the Nelly Sachs prize to proclaim and exemplify reconciliation among peoples and cultures. The jury regrets the situation in every respect.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the German parliament passed a motion deeming the BDS movement antisemitic, describing it as \u201creminiscent of the most terrible chapter in German history\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Shamsie called the removal of her award a \u201cmatter of outrage\u201d on Twitter<\/a>, adding that the boycott should not be \u201cheld up as something shameful and unjust\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former Women\u2019s prize for fiction winner also said she will not allow her work to be published in Israel \u201con the basis that there is no Israeli publisher who is completely unentangled from the state\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kamila Shamsie: Author stripped of book award over support for Israel boycott Ellie Harrison Kamila Shamsie ( AFP\/Getty Images ) The German jury of the Nelly Sachs book prize has withdrawn its decision to honour Kamila Shamsie with the award, due to her ongoing support for the Boycott, Diverstment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Earlier this month, the panel had decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73591"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73724,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591\/revisions\/73724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}