In Argentina, the decision to withdraw the invitation to the writer Ariana Harwicz from the Alh Culture Festival of the University of Granada, as a result of her positions on the Israeli massacre in Gaza, grew from an initial murmur of surprise to the cry of indignation expressed in a public letter with more than 400 signatures, many of them Argentine. There are writers, editors, booksellers and intellectuals from the right and the left; close to his defense of Israel and against it. Some authors agree with the anthropologist Rita Segato and the other six authors invited to the festival who came out against Harwicz for “having denied the existence of the genocide in Gaza,” but they are a minority. The defense of freedom of expression has broken the extreme polarization of the South American country. Several booksellers consulted say that sales of Harwicz's books have grown and readers who did not know her have approached her for the first time.
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