Renowned author and BDS Hero Kamila Shamsie won a prestigious literary award in Germany. Then a right wing website dug up “dirt” – that Shamsie happens to be super cool and supports BDS for Justice! – and just like that, the unscrupulous Jewish lobby had the award rescinded.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Kamila Shamsie studied creative writing in the US before moving to the UK in 2007. Her position on BDS (boycotting Jewish Israel over its many daily human rights violations) caused her literary award to be rescinded.By Kathryn Shihadah: Last week, the German town of Dortmund got it exactly wrong.




