两位花了两年时间为儿童撰写巴勒斯坦历史的巴勒斯坦裔美国作家表示，他们选择离开全球最大的出版社之一企鹅兰登书屋，也不愿让出版社改写他们关于纳克巴和2023年10月7日袭击事件的叙述。
Two Palestinian American authors who spent two years writing a history of Palestine for children say they walked away from Penguin Random House, one of the world’s largest publishers, rather than let it rewrite their account of the Nakba and the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
詹南·马塔里和阿兰娜·哈迪德周四表示，在出版社施压要求他们做出他们认为会剥夺书籍巴勒斯坦视角的修改后，他们决定撤回《流离失所与巴勒斯坦裔美国人故事》。
Jenan Matari and Alana Hadid said on Thursday they withdrew Displacement and the Palestinian American Story after the publisher pressed for changes they said would have stripped the book of its Palestinian perspective.
“当上层逼我们放弃道德指南针，用殖民主义的语言谴责我们的抵抗，只是为了出版……（阿兰娜·哈迪德）和我本来就会选择第二种选择，”马塔里在Instagram上写道，指的是坚持站在他们社区一边。
“When backed into a corner by higher ups to abandon our moral compasses and condemn our resistance in colonial terms just to be published … (Alana Hadid) and I were always going to choose the second option,” Matari wrote on Instagram, referring to standing by their community instead.
“我们永不会为了任何人的舒适而背叛自己的人民——尤其是永不会为了个人成功，”她说。
“We will never betray our own people for anyone’s comfort – and especially never for personal success,” she said.
在与哈迪德一起发布的视频中，马塔里表示，他们“花了两年生命共同撰写的这本书”将通过Interlink出版社在2027年出版。
In a video posted with Hadid, Matari said the book “that we spent two years of our lives writing together” will be published through Interlink Publishing in 2027.
Interlink目前将该书列为预售，书名为《面向年轻读者的巴勒斯坦理解：一个巴勒斯坦裔美国人的视角》。
Interlink is listing it for preorder as Understanding Palestine for Young Readers: A Palestinian American Perspective.
该故事首次由《卫报》报道，该报称作者们在九月初撤回了这本书，原因是兰登书屋的一位编辑在未经他们同意的情况下添加了一句关于哈马斯10月7日袭击的表述：“这些行为违反了国际法。”“很明显，企鹅兰登根本不会允许我们只是写出我们想写的书，”哈迪德对该报说。
The story was first reported by The Guardian, which said the authors pulled the book in early September after a Random House editor added, without their approval, a line saying of the Hamas's Oct. 7 attack: “These actions were a violation of international law.”“It became clear that Penguin was never actually going to allow us just to write the book we wanted to write,” Hadid told the newspaper.
根据报道，兰登书屋还建议在多处删除“犹太人”这一修饰语，包括作者们在描述纳克巴期间参与摧毁巴勒斯坦村庄的锡安主义民兵时使用的“犹太人帮派”一词。该报援引作者与出版社之间的电子邮件称，兰登书屋在八月曾提出在10月7日增加一则“出版者说明”，并将适读年龄从10岁及以上提高到14岁及以上。
According to the report, Random House also suggested removing “Jewish” as a modifier in several places, including where the authors described Zionist militias involved in destroying Palestinian villages during the Nakba as “Jewish gangs.”In August, the publisher proposed adding a “publisher’s note” on Oct. 7 and raising the age range from 10 and up to 14 and up, The Guardian reported, citing emails between the authors and the publisher.
兰登书屋的一位发言人告诉该报，这一过程“遵循了我们标准的图书制作程序”，并且出版社支持作者们决定撤回该书的决定。
A Random House spokesperson told the newspaper that the process “followed our standard bookmaking procedures” and that the publisher supported the authors’ decision to withdraw the book.
兰登儿童图书公司是企鹅兰登书屋的一个部门，该公司于2024年11月与活动人士、模特贝拉和吉吉·哈迪德的姐姐哈迪德以及作家和传播策略师马塔里签署了该书的出版协议。
Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House, signed the book in November 2024 with Hadid, an activist and the older sister of models Bella and Gigi Hadid, and Matari, an author and communications strategist.