US EditionSally Rooney risks committing terror offence under UK law if she funds Palestine Action, No 10 says
Sally Rooney pledges to fund Palestine Action despite UK banning it as terrorist group; over 700 arrests have been made since the proscription, officials said.
- Sally Rooney is facing potential legal issues in the UK after stating she will donate earnings to Palestine Action, a group banned as a terrorist organization.
- The UK government proscribed Palestine Action on July 5 after an incident involving significant damage at an air force base, with over 700 arrests having taken place since the ban took effect.
- Rooney declared in the Irish Times, "If this makes me a 'supporter of terror' under UK law, so be it," expressing her intent to continue supporting Palestine Action while facing legal risks.
- Legal experts warned that supporting Palestine Action could lead to serious consequences, including arrest without a warrant, as it is classified alongside groups like al-Qaeda under the same law.
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She describes herself as a Marxist who believes in the good things of socialism and is convinced that the world needs to be changed.
The author will allocate the proceeds for the rights of her works to finance the group, which has recently been declared a terrorist organization.
Irish author, famous for her best-selling "Normal People", announced that she would give back some of her rights including those of television adaptations of her novels to the banned British organization, classified as a terrorist in the Royaum
Irish author Sally Rooney could be arrested under British terrorism laws after announcing her intention to donate proceeds from her works to Palestine Action.
Sally Rooney is the conscience of a generation
Sally Rooney is in her Norman Mailer era. Forever dismissed – though mostly, it must be said, by Spectator columnists rather than literary critics – as an insipid, even annoying novelist, Rooney has declared she will be diverting the proceeds from the BBC adaptations of her novels to a terrorist organisation. Specifically, Palestine Action, that crew of grannies and poets that the police have been carrying into vans the past few weekends. And it…
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