An award ceremony for the Palestine-born novelist and essayist Adania Shibli is cancelled by the Frankfurt book fair because of “the war started by Hamas”. A cultural centre in Berlin has its funding cut and will be shut down after hosting an event from the organisation Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Michael Eisen is sacked as editor of the biomedical journal eLife for retweeting a post from the satirical website the Onion headlined “Dying Gazans criticised for not using last words to condemn Hamas”. David Velasco, editor of Artforum, a...