
Writer quits Society of Authors over union’s ‘betrayal’ of Jerusalem bookshop raided by Israeli police | Books
A writer has left the Society of Authors (SoA) in protest after the UK’s largest writers’ body made a statement on a recent Israeli police raid on a Palestinian-owned bookstore without mentioning Israel, Palestine or the names of the booksellers who were arrested. Matthew Teller, the author of books including Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, said…