'Our work is to never stop dancing, to ensure that the music never stops playing. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do — in the north, in the south, and investing in the leaders of tomorrow'.
“James Bridle’s endorsement of a call to boycott Israeli cultural institutions is incompatible with this responsibility, and it is why the Foundation cannot award the prize.”
TheOfficial1984 account, has more than 200,000 followers on X, and sells apparel with designs that depict the Holocaust as "make-believe" and antisemitic propaganda.
“Even if the books’ quality did not disqualify Coates from a National Book Award, one would expect that the antisemitism would,” the Jewish author and journalist Mark Oppenheimer recently wrote.
Lawyers, most notably the UK Lawyers for Israel association, have said that wearing such controversial clothing would be a potential breach of the Equality Act.
Junior Finance Minister Nora Achahbar's resignation triggered a crisis cabinet meeting at which four ministers from her centrist NSC party also threatened to quit.