https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/palestine-book-by-alana-hadid-and-jenan-matari-pulled-from-random-house-before-releaseContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/palestine-book-by-alana-hadid-and-jenan-matari-pulled-from-random-house-before-releasehttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/palestine-book-by-alana-hadid-and-jenan-matari-pulled-from-random-house-before-release#u134385Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:35:15 +0000Authors Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari terminated their agreement with Penguin Random House in September, pulling a children's book about Palestine before its release. The decision followed months of disagreements over the manuscript, specifically regarding editorial changes to Palestinian history and the characterization of the October 7 attacks. While some reports highlight a dispute over a single sentence, others indicate broader conflicts over the Nakba and the justification of the October 7 events. The authors withdrew the work after the publisher challenged their framing of these hist