The festival will prominently feature a screening of the antisemitic and anti-Israel film Farha, after which the director will speak. Other events include an entire panel dedicated to the works of PFLP terrorist Ghassan Khanafani.

Two convicted Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists will also participate in the festival:

• Mayss Abu Ghosh, who spent 16 months in prison in Israel for manufacturing firebombs, being a member of the student arm of the PFLP and meeting with Hezbollah in Lebanon
  
  

• Wisam Rafeedie, a convicted PFLP militant who also spent time in an Israeli prison 

Huwaida Arraf, a former co-chair of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at American University’s Washington College of Law, is one of the program coordinators. A noted ally of avowed terrorists, Arraf co-founded and participated in the Free Gaza Movement, whose mission was to illegally sail flotillas with “humanitarian relief” into Gaza.

After the first boat was stopped and participants used pistols, knives and clubs against Israeli security forces, Arraf admitted that participants “weren’t carrying aid” for Gazans

Rather in addition to humanitarian items that, according to Gazans, were not in short supply, the boat was carrying weapons and military equipment. 

• Antisemitic musician Roger Waters, a prominent BDS activist who regularly employs antisemitic tropes and imagery to denigrate Jewish people, including equating Israel with Nazi Germany

• Disgraced former CNN correspondent and newly hired CUNY professor Marc Lamont Hill, who supports the destruction of Israel “From the river to the sea”

• Anti-Israel professor-activist David Palumbo Liu, who has tweeted, “If Israel is not the most hated nation in the world, there is something deeply wrong with the world.”

• Anti-Israel agitator Reem Assil, who gained infamy for emblazoning one wall of her bakery with a mural idolizing PFLP terrorist Rasmea Odeh and led disruptive BDS protests in the U.S.

• Past president of Students for Justice in Palestine at Rhode Island School of Design Aya Ghanameh, who says, “yeah i support violent resistance and what about it?” 

• Palestinian researcher Salman Abu Sitta, who said in an interview, “Jews were hated in Europe because they played a role in the destruction of the economy in some of the countries.”

• Refaat Alareer, a professor at Islamic University of Gaza, who is on record as saying, “Are most Jews evil? Of course they are.”

In addition to the above, many of the festival’s participants in the festival can be found on Canary Mission’s website including:

• Bill Mullen
• Malini Scheuller
• Brice Patterson
• Nour Qutyan
• Fouad Dakwar
• Sherene Seikaly
• Andrew Ross
• Diana Buttu
• Alice Rothschild
• Maytha Alhassen

In 2023, Palestine Writes festival won a grant from The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. Other sponsors include:

• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a government agency

• Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which funds a multitude of anti-Israel and pro-BDS organizations

• American Friends Service Committee, an anti-Israel Quaker organization that promotes BDS

• Council on American Islamic Relations, a self-described Muslim civil rights organization that regularly lobbies government entities for various antisemitic initiatives and has been linked to terror funding

• American Muslims for Palestine, a national anti-Israel organization with a rich history of antisemitism and links to terror organizations and terror financiers

• Al-Awda, an activist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel through the “Right of Return”

• Mondoweiss, an anti-Israel news site that provides support for terrorists and advocates for the BDS movement

• Friends of Sabeel North America, the North American branch of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center which works to convince Christian churches of their spiritual duty to divest from Israel by teaching “Liberation theology,” a dogma that fuses Christian religious teachings with Palestinian national ideology

• Judith Butler, a University of California professor who is a BDS leader and member of the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace