Overview
- Festival directors said they rescinded Harwicz's invitation because of her public stance opposing a cultural boycott of Israel and related statements, removing her days before the CulturAlh program began.
- The University of Granada issued a formal statement saying the removal was not adopted, approved or backed by its governing team and distancing itself from the directors' decision.
- The Red Universitaria por Palestina de Granada says it sent a written request on September 17 asking the festival to reconsider Harwicz's participation and organisers cited those petitions in their explanation.
- Jewish representative bodies and many writers condemned the exclusion as discriminatory or censorial and have demanded a public account from the festival, while other cultural figures voiced support for Harwicz.
- The episode has ignited a wider debate over free expression, campus governance and activist influence at publicly linked cultural events, and Harwicz remains scheduled to appear at a Copenhagen literature event on September 25.