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Goodreads, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Books don't have any authors named "Ota Stephanie Kanto" or "Ota Kanto". The very first Google search result for those names is this Tweet.

It's also at least a little weird that they don't name the awards ceremony, or any of her novels. I don't think that's suspicious by itself, but combined with the fact that her name doesn't come up in any books database I've checked, it's a red flag.

To be clear, I don't dispute that the person onscreen is a willing protester who supports Palestine. I'm just not sure they're a novelist named Kanto receiving an award.

Can anyone fluent in Japanese check what they're saying?

I searched with DuckDuckGo and since I have Japanese dictionary installed, I got Japanese book review sites etc of Ota Stephanie Kanto, a few from 2023. Definitely an author. Unfortunately I'm not able to read Japanese fluently yet so I can't decipher what the websites say

大田ステファニー歓人 is her name in Japanese

Edit: a book review from April 2024 in English

Bet!

Ota Stephanie Kanto is the Tokyo-born author of 「みどりいせき」 which translates to “Green Ruins”, and won the 47th Subaru Literary Award last year. The book is on sale here. It is also, in fact, available on Amazon - on Japanese Amazon, not US Amazon, which should have been obvious.

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Those who were once oppressed under an Apartheid regime have stepped up to help those being oppressed under another one.

Meanwhile, the so-called "free" world is still trying to find ways to justify "standing with" and defending Israel's rogue racist Apartheid regime.

They should feel deep shame. They don't. But they all should.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib submits to the Congressional Record the entire South African genocide case against Israel and makes an impassioned call to Congress to stop funding the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.

Brazil has also given its support

One day, Inshaallah, we'll be able to again.

Palestinians commemorating Eid al Adha at Masjid al Aqsa