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Sally Rooney says she’ll donate to Palestine Action despite risking terrorism charges

JL;DR SUMMARY Irish author Sally Rooney publicly announced her financial support for Palestine Action, a British pro-Palestinian activist group recently labeled a terrorist organization. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Ireland
"Bestselling Irish author Sally Rooney has pledged to donate the proceeds from BBC productions of her novels to Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian activist group in the United Kingdom that was designated as a terrorist organization in July."
United Kingdom
"Activists who disrupt the flow of weapons to a genocidal regime may violate petty criminal statutes, but they uphold a far greater law and a more profound human imperative: to protect a people and culture from annihilation, she wrote in the op-ed."
Palestinian Territories
"I too support Palestine Action, wrote Rooney in an op-ed published in The Irish Times on Saturday."
Israel
"In October 2021, Rooney decided not to publish her novel Beautiful World, Where Are You? with an Israeli publishing house because she supports a boycott of Israel, and three years later, she signed a letter accusing Israel of committing genocide and pledging to boycott all Israeli literary institutions."
London, United Kingdom
"(A member of the Irish rap group Kneecap was charged under the Terrorism Act in May for displaying a Hezbollah flag at a concert in London last year.)"

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