The executive director of the Giller Prize privately told authors that she was working to end the Giller’s financial partnership with its lead sponsor, Scotiabank, amid growing controversy surrounding the bank’s ties with an Israeli arms manufacturer.
But despite behind-the-scenes assurances from Elana Rabinovitch that the foundation responsible for the literary award was planning to “extricate” itself from Scotiabank, the organization appeared to abruptly change direction, publicly doubling down on the partnership, which began in 2005.
Not just a Canadian thing …
Purging Jews From the Arts
Sally Rooney is a clarifying figure in the literary world. She does not go for complexity or nuance, and she doesn’t like to leave herself open to interpretation. Rooney has now written the same novel four times, likely to avoid any possible confusion over what it is she wants to say. And rather than hide behind some disingenuous claim of “just anti-Zionism,” she does things like oppose her last novel’s translation into Hebrew, an act of overt hostility to Jews and only Jews.
h/t Patti Jo
