This year's READ PALESTINE WEEK is coming November 29 - December 5.
Read Palestine Week 2026: Coming November 29-December 5
London Book Fair Must Disinvite Complicit Israeli Exhibitors
Publishers for Palestine, a global network of almost 600 publishers across 50 countries, calls on London Book Fair to disinvite Israeli exhibitors that are complicit in whitewashing Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and Israel’s wider aggression in the region.
2025 #ReadPalestineWeek: Writers to Support
This year, during Read Palestine Week (November 29-December 5), we are focusing on raising funds for writers who are in Gaza or recently left Gaza.
Ways to Engage: #ReadPalestine Week
Starting November 29, you can visit the Publishers for Palestine website and find links to free books, zines, and writers to support. You'll also want to join the marathon 24-hour Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine, starting November 29.
Join READ PALESTINE WEEK 2025
Join us for this year's READ PALESTINE WEEK, coming November 29-December 5.
Help Spread the Word, Boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair!
By supporting and amplifying the call to boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair on social media, websites, and in email blasts, by handing the flyer out at events and posting it to your bookstore walls, and by talking about the FBM boycott at events and in personal conversations—you are helping to advance the central movement of our time.
Bologna Book Fair’s Silence on Palestine
As its 62nd edition closes today, and on the day after International Children’s Book Day, the world’s largest and oldest trade fair in children’s publishing has failed to speak out in protest of the horrific ongoing violence against Palestinian children. The Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) has remained consistently silent regarding Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and has ignored calls from Palestinian and Arab publishers to suspend Israel’s participation.
The International Alliance of Independent Publishers and Publishers for Palestine Join Forces with Literal PRO
We are pleased to announce that Publishers for Palestine and the International Alliance of Independent Publishers will be joining forces with Literal PRO 2025, strengthening our commitment to radical publishing and global solidarity.
Publishers for Palestine Condemns Israel’s Ransacking of East Jerusalem Bookshop and the Arrest of Its Owners
The Publishers for Palestine coalition condemns the arrest, detention, and persecution of publisher-bookseller Mahmoud Muna and Ahmed Muna and demands their immediate release.
International Publishers call for a boycott of the Frankfurt Book Fair
It is in the spirit of that effort and in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement that Publishers for Palestine, a network of nearly 600 publishers based in 50 countries around the world, now calls for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event, the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse–FBM), for its complicity in genocide, its refusal to assert and uphold the rights of the Palestinian people under international law, and its refusal to condemn and sever economic and cultural ties with Israeli apartheid.
