Agree. PEN does much more good than harm. We can't afford to lose allies like this in the years to come. https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4646012-writers-attacking-pen-america-over-israel-are-burning-down-their-own-house/
@philipncohen How well-known is Rushdie in American intellectual circles like this? In Britain he's long been a cause célèbre, but my exposure to American intellectual circles is through an atypically South Asian corner (=3 Quarks Daily), and I don't know whether Midnight's Children and such are considered literary canon in the US.
@Alon honestly I do not know, but I would guess there are more intellectuals who have a vague sense that he is kind of anti-Islam than there are people who have read his books.