David Palumbo-Liu ( anti-racist Asian American scholar, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University) on support for Palestinian human rights by anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish American writers (2016): “It is precisely these sorts of ethically and morally driven acts of the imagination that these [pro-Palestinian rights, Pulitzer prize-winning, pro-BDS] writers are engaged in, to, as Nguyen says, “always remember, never forget.” To abandon our consciences once we have gained freedom and rights, and abandon those who have yet to achieve them and are being denied the means to do so, is a sign of moral poverty. Conversely, to give witness to that suffering and disengage from the machinery that is perpetuating that misery is the job these and other artists are undertaking” (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/ ).