Despite many accusing her pro-Palestinian stance of being antisemitic, she went ahead and dedicated her 1983 novel People Who Knock on the Door to the Palestinian people by writing:
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The BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions) has grown in momentum in the last years, with many renowned writers refusing to have their books published in Hebrew as to obfuscate their circulation in “Israel”.Īlice Walker, the highly-acclaimed writer of the international bestseller The Color Purple, has formerly rebuffed Israeli attempts at securing renewed translation rights for her book since she respects the current “boycotting of Israel the same way she respected the boycott in South Africa.”Īnother high-profile writer is Patricia Highsmith, famed for writing the Tom Ripley psychological thriller series of novels, who prohibited her books from ever being published in “Israel”. Yet Sally Rooney is not alone, as her decision has honorable precedents.
The young writer has previously mentioned the Palestinian cause within her books by criticizing the banality of general western discourse towards it. Rooney has long been vocal about her support for the Palestinian cause, having signed a letter in July - following the Israeli war on Gaza in May of this year - requesting the end of support “provided by global powers to Israel and its military especially the US,” and for governments to “cut trade, economic, and cultural relations” with the colonial regime. Nor is it a surprise to find Israel’s apologists traducing Ireland’s solidarity with colonised people in response. Sally Rooney has always been solid on Palestine, so it’s no surprise she stuck her neck out to support BDS. This decision was not some tabloid-circulated rumor, but came directly from her agent, Tracy Bohan of the Wylie Agency, who revealed what many have known all along: That Rooney supports a cultural boycott of “Israel”. Well, it so happens that Rooney made the conscientious choice of disallowing her latest book, Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), to be widely circulated in “Israel”, by simply refusing that Modan, an Israeli publishing house, translate her novel into Hebrew. So what is it that prompted a sudden backlash against this talented writer? Not only that but Normal People has also been adapted into an Emmy-nominated series by the BBC and Hulu. Her books have been critically acclaimed worldwide, translated into several languages, and nominated for highly prestigious awards such as the Booker Prize. Lest you have not picked up a book in the past 4 years, you have certainly heard of Sally Rooney, the Irish literary genius behind such masterpieces as Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018). Sally Rooney, if anything, should be lauded for her courageous, ethical, principled, and purely moralistic stance.
It deprives holocaust survivors, victims, and their descendants of the right to defend those who are being treated in the same spiteful and inhumane fashion to which they were subjected during the Second World War. But portraying it as such most certainly is. Requesting a dignified life for the oppressed people of Gaza is not antisemitic.Īnd in that same vein, Sally Rooney’s decision is unrelated to antisemitism. Defending the rights of millions of Palestinians living under siege is not antisemitic. Let’s cut to the chase: Criticism against “Israel” is not antisemitic.
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