Starting in early 2024, a loose coalition of individual writers, ad hoc groups, and Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) started a pressure campaign against PEN America because of the organization’s tepid response to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. PEN America, which currently styles itself as the leading “free speech” organization in the United States, was founded in 1922 as an affiliate of PEN International, an association of writers “promoting literature and…
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