{"id":652751,"date":"2026-10-21T03:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652751\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:18:13","slug":"why-is-the-u-k-no-longer-selling-sally-rooneys-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652751\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the U.K. no longer selling Sally Rooney’s books?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Irish culture journalist Aoife Barry explains the decision and describes the polarized reaction.<\/p>\n

Irish culture journalist Aoife Barry explains the decision and describes the polarized reaction<\/p>\n

CBC Arts \u00b7 Posted: Oct 20, 2026 4:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago<\/p>\n

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\"aPASADENA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 17: Sally Rooney speaks onstage during the Hulu Panel at Winter TCA 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 17, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Erik Voake\/Getty Images for Hulu)<\/p>\n

The Irish novelist Sally Rooney became famous for writing about millennial relationships. But even before she became a best-seller, she was an outspoken supporter of Palestine. <\/p>\n

Now, her books are set to disappear from U.K. shelves after she pledged to donate the proceeds to a pro-Palestinian group, which the British government calls a terrorist organization. <\/p>\n

Today on Commotion, Irish culture journalist Aoife Barry<\/a> joins guest host Radheyan Simonpillai to explain the decision, and describe the polarized reaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH | Today’s episode on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

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You can listen to the full discussion from today’s show on CBC Listen<\/a> or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interview with Aoife Barry produced by Jessica Low. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commotion Irish culture journalist Aoife Barry explains the decision and describes the polarized reaction. Irish culture journalist Aoife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-652751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}