CLAUDIA WEBBE speaks out against the lethal mechanics of Britain’s culture-war press
The cultural genocide in Palestine
RAMZY BAROUD takes issue with criticisms of Sally Rooney’s decision to boycott Israel
Sally Rooney
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THE pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist Sally Rooney as soon as she declared that she had “chosen not to sell … translation rights of her best-selling novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, to an Israeli-based publishing house.”
Expectedly, the accusations centred on the standard smearing used by Israel and its supporters against anyone who dares criticise Israel and exhibits solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people.
Rooney’s laudable action was not in the least “racist” or “anti-semitic.”
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