The UK government’s proscription of campaign group Palestine Action saw over more than 500 protestors arrested this month – the greatest number of arrests made by the Met Police on a single day – after they took signs of support to Parliament Square. The arrests prompted expressions of unease from politicians, commentators and, now, authors. Irish writer Sally Rooney took to the pages of the Irish Times this weekend to express her support for the activist lot and vowed to use BBC cash to help fund Palestine Action. It’s quite the statement!

Rooney wrote that she felt she had to make her support public after the mass arrests of Palestine Action supporters on 9 August, and asserted: ‘If this makes me a “supporter of terror” under UK law, so be it.’ The Irish novelist went on:

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