Sally Rooney has shared that she intends to continue to donate royalties from her four books and her two television shows in the UK to Palestine Action.
She confirmed in a piece she wrote for The Irish Times that she will “go on supporting Palestine Action and direct action against genocide”.
Sally, who lives in Ireland, has written four books, Conversations with Friends, Normal People, Beautiful World, Where Are You and Intermezzo. Two of her novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People, have been adapted into TV series.
She has been open about her support for Palestine as well as British protest group Palestine Action, writing: “If this makes me a supporter of terror under UK law, so be it”.
The pro-Palestinian direct action group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government in July.
However, Sally has previously decried this decision by Westminister, writing in The Guardian in June that this is an “alarming attack on free speech”.
PA reports that Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, the ambassador of the state of Palestine in Ireland, said: “Sally Rooney is using her voice to call out international law and human rights violations in Palestine.
“I hope these calls result in practical actions that will stop the horrors we’re witnessing carried out by Israel in Palestine; to stop the genocide and forced displacement and end the Israeli occupation.”
