Help Spread the Word, Boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair!

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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

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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

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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.

International Publishers call for a boycott of the Frankfurt Book Fair

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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.

7,000+ Authors and Book Workers Join Historic Boycott Against Complicit Israeli Publishers

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Over 7,000 writers, editors, translators, illustrators, publishers, agents, librarians, and other book industry workers have now joined the boycott of Israeli literary institutions complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Upon its release on October 28th, 2024, the public letter announcing the campaign already constituted the largest boycott against Israeli cultural institutions in history. Now, with thousands more signing on, this letter signals a watershed moment in the international movement for Palestinian rights.