Letters to the Editor, Jerusalem Post, October 13, 2021
Loony Rooney boycott move
Regarding “Israel
Boycott: Sally Rooney won’t let novel be published in Hebrew,” (October
12), let’s face it, some people are just dense when it comes to politics. Jean-Paul
Sartre supported president of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong when
during the years he was in power some 65 million people were killed.
But there were novelists who were not
blind, like Albert Camus.
As for Sally Rooney, one must really be
illiterate not to see from the very name of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad what
this is all about. Not surprising, coming from Ireland, whose prime minister de
Valera had visited the German Legation in order to sign the book of condolences
on the death of Adolf Hitler.
MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC
Beersheba
In the letter I sent it just said
Mao. The editor changed it to “president
of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong”. Except that Mao
was not the "president of the People’s Republic of China". He
was the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. I know that
people living in Israel today probably would not even notice the difference,
but anyone who has some idea how communist systems function would notice
the inaccuracy. In communist countries the Party reigns supreme.