Viet Thanh Nguyen ( author "The Sympathizer", Vietnamese-American novelist, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and 1 of 4 winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel , the others being Alice Walker, Richard Ford, and Junot Diaz) (2016): “Always remember, never forget. These powerful words compel us to think about both the injustices of the past and the injustices of the present. One of those contemporary injustices that we struggle to remember is the Israeli occupation and the deprivation of Palestinian rights. For any of us concerned with justice, the imperative is clear: we must stand with the disempowered and the forgotten against militarism and the state” (David Palumbo-Liu, “Backing BDS: another Pulitzer winner comes out for Palestinian rights”, Salon, 22 June 2016: https://www.salon.com/2016/06/22/backing_bds_another_pulitzer_winner_comes_out_for_palestinian_rights/ ).