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Sally Rooney among 1,000 authors urging boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

2024-10-30

Another tentacle of the PLO’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement works to drive Zionists out of the public square.

[IsraelTimes] strong>Letter vows signatories won’t work with entities complicit in ‘overwhelming oppression’ of Palestinians; Howard Jacobson pans ‘staggering’ attempt to silence writers

Irish author Sally Rooney is among some 1,000 authors and literary professionals who signed a pledge to boycott Israeli cultural institutions, the UK’s Guardian newspaper reported Monday.

Authors Arundhati Roy and Rachel Kushner

…I have tried to read their writings, but cannot see the appeal. What some call lyrical others deride as self-consciously pompous — but at least they can preen themselves on loudly claiming all the “right” opinions…

also signed the letter vowing to boycott Israeli cultural institutions that “are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.”

”Come, Culture Leaders — let us all flatter our consequence and be old-fashioned Mean Girls together!”

According to the report, the signatories pledge not to work with Israeli publishers, festivals, literary agencies and publications that are “complicit in violating Palestinian rights,” including “whitewashing and justifying Israel’s occupation, apartheid, or genocide.”

The campaign was organized by the Palestine Festival of Literature.

Since 2008 a project of the Palestinian Authority — formerly known as the PLO — in the West Bank, because Hamas in uninterested in anything not oriented toward Allah and jihad.

Other leading authors panned the letter.

Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson said he had “scarce belief that one writer, that one person from the artistic community, should dream that he or she has a right to silence another. It is staggering,” the UK’s Times newspaper reported.

Award-winning author Lionel Shriver charged that the letter aimed to “intimidate all authors into withdrawing their work for consideration at Israeli publishing houses and refusing to participate in Israeli festivals,” the Times said.

Rooney is a long-time Israel critic who has refused to allow her Israeli publisher to translate her books into Hebrew.

UK Lawyers for Israel, a legal advocacy group, posted to social media platform X that the letter “makes false allegations against Israel and commits its signatories to engage in a discriminatory and illegal boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.”

In a missive to the Publishers Association, UKLFI said the letter is “plainly discriminatory against Israelis,” citing the UK Equality Act 2010 and other discriminatory legislation from around the world.

“This boycott is plainly discriminatory against Israelis. The authors do not impose similar conditions on publishers, festivals, literary agencies, or publications of any other nationality,” the UKLFI wrote.

The development came against the backdrop of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

Though to be fair, this kind of anti-virtue signaling goes on no matter what might be happening in the real world; what they object to is the Jewish state itself, not whatever Israel might or might not be doing at the moment.

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 From the Internet Archive if you want to read it One Hundred Authors Against Einstein(1931)... You can always find a collection of idiots and/or bigots to self-identify.

Posted by: magpie 2024-10-30 13:48

#3 ^An elf/orc hybrid?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-10-30 13:47

One of the better photos I could find online of Sally. In most photos she just looks mad at existence and that makes her look ugly.

Posted by: 3dc 2024-10-30 13:35

#1 Lumpen intelligentsia in action.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-10-30 04:32

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