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.
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.
Of particular relevance to writers and publishers is the fact that the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBM), the world’s largest book industry event, has historically warmly welcomed apartheid Israel’s presence.
Publishers for Palestine 