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The government of the United Kingdom warned Irish novelist Sally Rooney against the funding of Palestine’s action after promising the campaign group support forbidden by the government led by work as a “terrorist” group last month.
The Prime Minister’s office said on Monday that “support for an organization prohibited is an offense under the law on terrorism” and warned to support these organizations.
“There is a difference between showing its support for an organization prohibited, which is an offense under the law on terrorism, and a legitimate protest to support a cause”, a spokesperson was cited by PA Media.
In an opinion article in Irish Times on Saturday, Rooney, the most sold novels, such as normal people and conversations with friends, criticized the government’s decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group.
“Activists who disrupt the flow of arms to a genocidal regime can violate criminal laws, but they support a much greater law and a deeper human imperative: protecting a people and a culture of annihilation,” she wrote in the article.
The action in Palestine was prohibited after its activists burst into a military base in the center of England in June and sprayed red painting on two planes to protest against the support of the United Kingdom to the War of Israel against Gaza, which killed more than 62,000 Palestinians, more than half of women and children.
Since its foundation in 2020, Palestine Action has disrupted the arms industry in the United Kingdom with “direct action”. He says that he “is determined to end world participation in the genocidal regime and apartheid of Israel”.
Israel was accused of generalized abuse during its 22 months of war against Gaza. The International Court of Justice in January 2024 said that Israeli actions in Gaza were plausibly genocide. Since then, several rights organizations have qualified the War of Israel a genocide. In November, the International Criminal Court published arrest mandates against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for war crimes.
Rooney said that she had chosen the newspaper based in Dublin to publicize her intention rather than that of the United Kingdom, because that “would now be illegal” in Great Britain after the prohibition of the government Action of Palestine.
“The state diffuser of the United Kingdom … regularly pays me residual costs. I want to be clear that I intend to use these products of my work, as well as my public platform in general, to support action in Palestine and direct action against genocide in all possible ways, ”she wrote.
More than 700 supporters of the action in Palestine were decree In the United Kingdom, mainly during demonstrations, since the group was prohibited under the law of 2000 on terrorism.
“I feel obliged to say once again that like the hundreds of demonstrators arrested last weekend, I also support the action in Palestine. If that makes me a” supporter of terror “under British law, as long as he is,” said Rooney.
The prime minister’s office spokesman said that action in Palestine had been prohibited “on the basis of security advice following serious attacks that the group committed, following an assessment made by the Terrorism Analysis Center”.
The government’s prohibition of action in Palestine entered into force on July 5, a few days after taking responsibility for a break -in in an Air Force base in the south of England which caused around 7 million pounds ($ 9.3 million) of damage to two planes.
The group said its activists responded to British indirect military support in Israel during the war in Gaza.
Being a member of the action in Palestine or supporting the group is now a criminal offense punishable by a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. He places the campaign group on the same legal foot as ISIL (Isis) and Al-Qaeda.
More than 500 people were arrested during a demonstration on the Place du Parliament in London on August 9 for displaying signs that support the group. The number is considered to be the highest number ever recorded of detentions during a single demonstration in the capital.
At least 60 of them are expected to face prosecution, police said.
Interior secretary, Yvette Cooper, defended the group’s proscription, declaring: “National security and British public security must always be our absolute priority.”
“The evaluations are very clear-it is not a non-violent organization,” she said.
In his article, Rooney accused the British government of “gladly undressing its own citizens of fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right to express and read dissident opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel”.