Viral list classifies authors as Zionist, urging people not to read their work

Viral list classifies authors as Zionist, urging people not to read their work

Have you ever wondered what fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s views on Israel are? Or Zadie Smith’s? Maybe Salman Rushdie? A helpfully color-coded Google spreadsheet is circulating online, categorizing authors as Zionist (red), pro-Palestinian (blue), or varying shades of unknown: orange, yellow and green, which seem to indicate a progression between leaning Zionist and leaning pro-Palestinian. (All of the above authors were highlighted in orange, d…