🗞️ Story file #486
Sally Rooney's books withdrawn from UK sales over Palestine Action support
Oct 14, 5 PM ET to Oct 15, 6 PM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 2 · 0🐘left · center · right
- 1 dayon the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 6people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 14, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Times
- Oct 15, 4 AM ETretold online by 6 people
- Oct 15, 8 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- New York Times (2 wordings): “Sally Rooney’s Books Pulled in U.K. Over Her Support of Pro-Palestinian Group” → “Sally Rooney Withdraws Her Books From UK Over Her Support of Palestine Action”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
Rolling Stone
Sally Rooney Books No Longer Sold in U.K. Due to Palestine Action Support Oct 14, 2 PM ET
CBS News
Sally Rooney books off U.K. shelves over Palestine Action support Oct 15, 8 AM ET
NBC News
Sally Rooney’s publisher withdraws her books from U.K. sale over support for Palestine Action Oct 14, 1 PM ET
New York Times
Sally Rooney’s Books Pulled in U.K. Over Her Support of Pro-Palestinian Group Oct 14, 5 PM ET
The Independent
Sally Rooney no longer published in UK over Palestine Action support Oct 14, 10 AM ET
BBC
Sally Rooney books withdrawn in UK over Palestine Action support Oct 14, 2 PM ET
Reuters
Sally Rooney's books no longer sold in UK over support for banned pro-Palestinian group Oct 14, 3 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- An author has withdrawn her books from sale in the UK because of the risk of prosecution for donating profits to Palestine Action. Oct 15: told by 6 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 108 likes, 9 reposts
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Sally Rooney Palestine Action
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.