Sally Rooney publicly supported Palestine Action and accepted being labeled a "supporter of terror" under UK law. The British government proscribed Palestine Action in July, equating it with ISIS and Al-Qaeda and making membership or support a criminal offense punishable by up to 14 years' imprisonment. The proscription followed a break-in at a Royal Air Force base by activists who damaged planes to protest British military support for Israel. Months of lobbying by the arms industry and meetings with the Israeli government helped prepare the ground for proscription. Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper added two neo-Nazi groups to the order to secure its passage, broadening the legal reach against dissent.
There is a long history of people being weird about Sally Rooney: Her books are too Marxist or not Marxist enough; she glamorizes thinness, stigmatizes BDSM, and promotes unhealthy age-gap relations; her queer characters don't have queer sex; worst of all, she had the arrogance to embark on career as a novelist without first having completed an MFA. But people demanding that she is pounced upon by an SAS unit and imprisoned for 14 years
In July, the British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, akin to ISIS or Al-Qaeda. Under British law, proscription makes it a criminal offense, carrying up to 14 years' imprisonment, not only to be a member of the group but to support it in any way. The bill was rushed through parliament after Palestine Action activists broke into a Royal Air Force base and damaged two planes, in what they said was a response to the British army's ongoing support of Israel.
By that point, the ground for proscription had already been laid by months of lobbying from the arms industry and meetings with the Israeli government. In a move to guarantee its success, Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tacked on two neo-Nazi groups to the proscription order: the Russian Imperial Movement and the Maniacs Murder Cult, a group from the country Georgia which once allegedly instructed an undercover inform
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