‘World’s richest nations’ facilitating ‘undisguised genocide’ in Gaza, says Sally Rooney

Supporters of the Palestinian people need to accept that traditional forms of peaceful protest have not had a meaningful impact on the actions of Israel in Gaza, author Sally Rooney has said. Speaking at a public meeting in Dublin on Tuesday evening, Rooney criticised the mainstream media’s coverage of the invasion by Israel, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 70,000 Palestinians. She paid tribute to the more than 200 journalists killed a difference. “It is not enough for us as members of the public simply to know the facts, to sit at home, reading the news and shaking our heads in dismay,” she said. “If we are to do justice to the bravery of those journalists who risk their lives to tell us the truth, then we have to stand up and take action.” Author Sally Rooney and her husband John Prasifka (left) in conversation with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed in Dublin on Tuesday. Foreign aid, weaponry, and military intelligence have flowed from wealthy western nations into Israel, facilitating and supporting the mass killings of Palestinians. “Why? Certainly not for legal or institutional reasons, considering the perhaps irreversible damage the Israeli state has .” Rooney said the European political class had “torn international law to shreds” and “made a mockery of their own voters” to retain their protected place in the US imperial system. Rooney’s first two novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People, were translated into Hebrew . However, she in 2021 declined to allow the same publisher translate Beautiful World, Where Are You, saying that she supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. In 2024, a translation of Intermezzo was published , an independent Israeli publisher that supports Palestinian rights.