{"id":123625,"date":"2026-05-20T20:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/123625\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:29:11","slug":"bds-but-not-as-you-know-it-sally-rooney-now-knows-how-to-identify-a-good-israeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/123625\/","title":{"rendered":"BDS, but Not as You Know It: Sally Rooney Now Knows How to Identify a &#8216;Good Israeli&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">Sally Rooney has agreed to publish her latest novel &#8216;Intermezzo&#8217; in Hebrew by publishers deemed BDS-compliant. But the price of acceptance by boycotters, whether within Israel or outside, is a political purity test that is toxic for allyship and effective political action<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Five years of self-flagellation. That&#8217;s how long it took to close the agreement between Sally Rooney, Israeli publishers and the Palestinian boycott movement to publish the bestselling Irish novelist&#8217;s book &#8220;Intermezzo&#8221; in Hebrew. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Rooney has agreed to publish her latest novel &#8216;Intermezzo&#8217; in Hebrew by publishers deemed BDS-compliant. But the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[14607,41516,37,29388,7401,2253,26187,6393],"class_list":["post-123625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-anti-israel","tag-bds-movement","tag-israel","tag-israel-boycott","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-palestinians","tag-two-state-solution","tag-zionism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116608798684953924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}