PEN America: The Freedom to Lie outlines the case for a boycott. However, at the end of 2025 the organizers, Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) capitulated to careerism & ended the boycott.
Further reading:
- Free expression group PEN America gets sponsored by apartheid Israel, May 2015.
- Over [1300] writers have signed this open letter to PEN America [about Palestine]. March 2024.
- Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners? April 2024.
- EXCLUSIVE: PEN America is both a lifeline and a ‘wasted opportunity’ for some incarcerated writers, May 2024.
- PEN America doesn’t prioritize incarcerated writers, former staffers say, June 2024.
- 100+ translators call for PEN America to relinquish control of the Heim Fund. July 2024.