Comments on: UK BDS group, high-profile authors back Sally Rooney boycotting Israeli publisher https://www.jwire.com.au/uk-bds-group-high-profile-authors-back-sally-rooney-boycotting-israeli-publisher/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:22:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Liat Kirby https://www.jwire.com.au/uk-bds-group-high-profile-authors-back-sally-rooney-boycotting-israeli-publisher/#comment-618516 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:22:16 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=131726#comment-618516 Literature transcends politics. It goes to another place altogether, allowing fuller knowledge of cultures, with all their complications, through characters and their environment. It fosters empathy. And here we have the likes of Sally Rooney, et al, dragging it down and away.

Narrow-minded indeed. Perhaps stop writing books, Sally, and become a politician.

]]> By: Naomi Be https://www.jwire.com.au/uk-bds-group-high-profile-authors-back-sally-rooney-boycotting-israeli-publisher/#comment-618514 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:33:28 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=131726#comment-618514 I would love to see the list of writers who support her.. Pretty sure that they are c grade, they must be if their knowledge about Israel is limited to BDS propaganda. Boycott goes two ways.. So lets see the names…Just in case there would be someone previously read but whose work can now easily be ignored or find its way in the garbage bin.

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