Colin Sheridan: There comes no pleasure in writing critically about Sally Rooney

Allowing 'Intermezzo' to be published in Hebrew through an Israeli publisher deemed compliant with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement raises a question larger than Rooney herself: What do we validate when we make exceptions?

Sally Rooney has never boycotted Hebrew. She has boycotted Israeli cultural institutions complicit in apartheid. File picture

There comes no pleasure in writing critically about Sally Rooney. 

I have long admired her work and her courage, and I expect I will continue to do both.