Sky News host Chris Kenny says PricewaterhouseCoopers is the latest company to give Adelaide Writers Week “the flick” over some speakers who spout “hateful and ludicrous views” on Israel and Ukraine.
“So, they’ve demanded that PwC’s Adelaide Festival sponsorship dollars go nowhere near Writers Week,” Mr Kenny said.
“Now this is all understandable given the billing included Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa, who’s said ‘it’s possible to be Jewish and/or a Nazi at the same time – it’s called Israel’.
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