In February, over 100 artists announced in The Guardian that they were participating in a cultural boycott of Israel, and would accept "neither professional invitations to Israel, nor funding, from any institutions linked to its government," due to the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.<br />Other prominent British cultural figures - including Rowling - are against the boycott.<br />She and others have joined in a movement called Culture for Coexistence, which published an open letter in The Guardian that called for "bridges, not boycotts."<br />The author says that she has received privates messages perpetuating that "Harry wouldn't understand" her position.<br />But in an essay posted on TwitLonger, Rowling argues that Harry, particularly the mature Harry of Deathly Hallows, would at least try to understand the anti-boycott stance - just as he tried to understand Dumbledore's plan in the final book, and followed it despite his own hesitations.
