Randa Abdel-Fattah won’t appear a panel with a Zionist. Here’s why

Advance disclosure: I am Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s lawyer. For those arriving late, Randa is a Palestinian-Australian academic and writer whose failure to invite to Adelaide Writers’ Week led to a mass boycott, the resignation of its board and director, and the eventual cancellation of the event.

This saga also led to the intervention and several statements of SA Prime Minister Peter Malinauskas, against whom I represented Randa in a defamation claim. Randa has since been invited to speak at the Newcastle Writers Festival, which NSW Premier Chris Minns said was “extraordinary”. “crazy” – is probably catatonic right now because Sydney Writers Festival He also confirmed that he appeared there.