Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Jenan Matari, and Daniel José Older are among the more than 100 writers who have signed an open letter vowing to boycott Indigo Books and Music, Canada’s largest bookstore.
By signing the letter, the authors have pledged “to no longer support events hosted or sponsored by Indigo Books adding to the ongoing consumer boycott against Indigo due to their CEO, Heather Reisman’s complicity and support of the genocide in Gaza.”
Published in solidarity with the Indigo Kills Kids campaign, the letter demands that Reisman and her husband (Onex Corporation founder Gerald Schwartz) fully divest from Indigo and/or dissolve the HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiers—a Canadian charitable organization that incentivizes foreign nationals (“lone soldiers”) to voluntarily enlist in the Israeli military.…