A Best Sellers Author with the aid of Gaza. The Irishman Sally Rooney, famous for her novel Normal People, engages with the Palestinians. “I intend to use these income from my work, and my notoriety more broadly, to support Palestine Action”announced the 34-year-old novelist, known for her commitment to the rights of the Palestinians, in a forum published this weekend in The Irish Times. As she explains in the newspaper, the Irish author perceives royalties of the BBC, which has co -produced and broadcast the television adaptations of Normal People (2020), planetary success, and Conversations with friends (2022).
At the beginning of July, the Palestine Action group was prohibited and added to the list of organizations classified terrorists in the United Kingdom, after acts of vandalism perpetrated on a base of the Air Force. Since then, more than 700 people have been arrested and about sixty will be continued to have demonstrated their support by brandishing in particular signs during gatherings.
“In this context, I feel forced to assert again […] that I support Palestine Action. If that makes me a “Terrorism support” under British law, whether this is so ”writes Sally Rooney, who lives in Ireland. “I would gladly publish this forum in a British newspaper, but it would now be illegal”adds the novelist, often described as “voice” of the generation of Millennials, born in the years 1980-1990, and which defined itself as Marxist.
Sally Rooney, who sold millions of novels around the world, had refused in 2021 that his third work, “Where are you, admirable world ?»either translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publishing house which it considered too close to power, arousing strong reactions within the Jewish community.
Several organizations and NGOs, including the United Nations, Greenpeace and Amnesty International, have strongly condemned the prohibition of Palestine Action, and warned that the arrests of his supports threatened freedom of expression. The founder of the organization, which aims to denounce “British complicity” With Israel, in particular on arms sales, has filed a court which must be examined in November.
