Sally Rooney vows to use royalties to support Palestine Action despite terror ban
Novelist Sally Rooney promised to continue to support Palestinian action, using copyrights from BBC adaptations of his books.
The 34 -year -old normal human writer confirmed his support to the direct action group called a terrorist organization banned by the home office last month.
This means that the support of the group, which can be sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment in accordance with the law of terrorism in the UK, is illegal.
In a hot piece published in it Irish timesLast week, the author hit the arrest of more than 500 “brave individuals” in the London Parliament Square, “I oppose the Genocide, I support Palestinian action”.
“In this context, like hundreds of protesters arrested last weekend – as I support the Palestinian action, I feel compelled to mention once again, or he wrote.
“If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ according to the British laws, so. At least for now my books are still published in the UK and are common in bookstores and even supermarkets.
“In recent years, England’s state publisher has also published two fine adaptations of my novels on television, so it is regularly paying me fees.
“I would like to explain that I intend to use these revenues and general platforms of my work in general, and to continue to support the Palestinian action and direct action against genocide.”
He said he would publish the same expression happily in the UK article, but now he would be illegal.
Ms. Rooney accused the British government of standing out of fundamental rights and freedoms to ün protect her relationship with Israel ”.
“In the UK, where the distinguished poet Alice Oswald has already been arrested, results for cultural and intellectual life, and increasing number of artists and writers can no longer travel to England to speak to the public – it will be deep and deep,” he said.
58 -year -old Mrs. Oswald, who won the TS Eliot Prize in 2002 and a professor of poetry at Oxford University, was among those detained last week at the center of London.
Later, he said that the motivation of participation included the personal experience of regularly teaching online poetry to young people and children in Gaza.
According to the metropolitan police figures, half of the protesters are arrested and now they are facing terrorist prisoners who have potentially change life.
Interior Minister Yette Cooper advocated the decision to ban the Palestinian action this weekend, and insisted that it was more than a “regular protest group ..
Cooper, Anti -Terror Intelligence, said the organization’s tests within the scope of the 2000 Law of Terrorism will be banned with “disturbing information” about future attacks.
“Protect public security and national security, in the heart of my work,” he wrote Observer. “In order to have more serious attacks or injuries, the government would rightly be condemned for not moving earlier to keep people safe.”
The protesters promised to continue the ban in November that Huda Ammori, the founder of the group, brought a legal challenge to the Supreme Court in November.
