Irish bestselling novelist Sally Rooney says she will continue to support Palestine Action, despite the group being proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK, reports BBC.
The award-winning novelist said she intends to use the earnings of her work and her public platform to “go on supporting Palestine Action and direct action against genocide”.
Writing in the Irish Times, she said “if this makes me a supporter of terror under UK law, so be it”.
Her remarks came as British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper again defended the proscription of Palestine Action, saying it is more than “a regular protest group known for occasional stunts”.
Palestine Action is a British pro-Palestinian direct action group that was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the government in July.
Their activities have predominantly targeted arms companies since the start of the current war in Gaza.
Rooney, who wrote bestsellers including Normal People and Intermezzo, has previously been a vocal backer of the protest group, writing in the Guardian in June that proscribing them would be an “alarming attack on free speech”.
She was speaking after some of its members broke into RAF Brize Norton and sprayed two planes with red paint, causing damages worth an estimated £7m.
Separately in 2021, she refused to allow “Beautiful World, Where Are You” to be translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publisher – a move she said was in support of calls to boycott Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.
At the time, she said it would “be an honour” to have the book translated into Hebrew by a company which shared her political position.
In her latest Irish Times opinion piece, she said she will continue to use the proceeds of her work – including residuals from a BBC co-production of Normal People and Conversations with Friends – to keep supporting the group.
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