Vacillating arts leaders need to grow a backbone over Palestine

• Earlier this month, Manchester’s Home theatre found itself at the centre of a row that it should have seen coming. A hitherto very well-respected arts complex, Home was forced to cancel its Voices of Resistance evening, hailed as a celebration of Gazan writing and featuring the actress Maxine Peake and the novelist Kamila Shamsie, among others. One of the issues lay in the fact that the promotional material stated that “in the face of wholesale genocide, the resilience of Palestinians has, over