More than 7,000 writers and book industry professionals have launched the largest-ever boycott against Israeli literary institutions accused of being “complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people,” according to the Palestine Festival of Literature, an annual event held across the occupied West Bank.

The signatories include renowned authors and editors, such as recipients of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Giller Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, Miles Franklin Award, and National Book Award. Leading editors from the “big five” publishing houses and numerous independent publishers are also among those who signed the statement.

Notably, Israeli authors who oppose the ongoing genocidal actions by the Israeli occupation have also joined the call.

The collective statement demands that these literary institutions “denounce and distance themselves from Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime” and “affirm the full protected rights of the Palestinian people under international law, including the right of return.”