This Sunday, As part of the London Literary Festival, the South Bank Centre is hosting an event called “Why Boycott Culture“. It is a debate on the motion  ’Cultural boycott can be an effective, indeed morally imperative, political strategy‘

The debate features Omar Barghouti, human rights activist and author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions – The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, and poet Seni Seneviratne, author of Wild Cinammon and Winter Skin, both speaking for the motion.

Speaking against the motion are Carol Gould, broadcaster and author of Don’t Tread on Me – Anti-Americanism Abroad, and Jonathan Freedland, a columnist for the Guardian, and author of six books including Jacob’s Gift.

Opponents of boycotts – especially boycotts of Israel – should find it an interesting event.