A discussion group that includes Australian writers, teachers and academics is campaigning to get an editor and academic sacked and funding withdrawn, in response to a literary journal’s publication of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel articles.
Messages from a WhatsApp group, which were posted to X/Twitter by Evelyn Araluen, appear to show an “urgent call to action” against Jonathan Dunk, who co-edits Overland with Araluen.
The requests in the group appear to include asking for screenshots to use as evidence to support taking legal action against Dunk and the journal. Other comments posted by Araluen call for complaints to be made to Deakin University, where Araluen and Dunk are employed as academics, and also to Creative Victoria, which funds Overland.
(Rosemary Sorensen, ‘Independent Australia’, 4th Feb 2023—more)