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Israel Foreign Ministry: Irish Author Impedes Peace
(Independent-Ireland) Melanie Finn - After Irish author Sally Rooney said she supported a cultural boycott of Israel and would not allow the translation rights for her latest novel to be sold to an Israeli publishing house, Israel's foreign ministry said, "This is an unfortunate position that promotes narrow-mindedness and impedes peace, dialogue, or any meaningful change....There is something inherently flawed with an intellectual who refuses to engage in conversation, and instead supports the silencing of opinion." Nurit Tinari, director of the foreign ministry's culture division, said: "The boycott movement is an illegitimate campaign that has been tainted with anti-Semitism since the day it was founded through to today....If Ms. Rooney had visited Israel and studied the situation in depth, I believe that she would not have made such a discriminatory decision that excludes an entire group of people based on its place of residence and language."