Sally Rooney won't save Israel's liberal center from itself

Many people who view themselves as centrists or leftists don't really oppose the fundamental situation within which all this is happening. When it comes to the genocide in the Gaza Strip, for instance, many of them either participated in it or kept silent about it

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Sally Rooney won't save Israel's liberal center from itself

Many people who view themselves as centrists or leftists don't really oppose the fundamental situation within which all this is happening. When it comes to the genocide in the Gaza Strip, for instance, many of them either participated in it or kept silent about it

Hanin Majadli

12:15 AM • May 26 2026 IDT

The agreement between Sally Rooney, Israeli publishers and the BDS movement over the translation of her new book into Hebrew was received with a sigh of relief by the Israeli center-left's literary milieu. Some saw it as a sign of a global turning point, from a sweeping boycott to drawing a distinction between Itamar Ben-Gvir's Israel and "liberal Israel."

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