Seems it’s more about the activists themselves than helping Palestinians.
More power to her
It’s fine. Fair play. She won’t be able to travel to the UK for a bit. Her choice.
It is nuts that a couple of hundred kilometers up the road from where I am you can’t say “I support Palestinian action” without being arrested but they allow flags supporting actual terrorists to fly and murals doing the same aren’t painted over.
I feel like it’s getting lost that Palestine Action damaged to the point of replacement jet engines on RAF tankers.
Of course destroying military equipment, while Europe is dealing with Russia’s invasion, will result in an organisation being proscribed.
Unfortunately, a significant amount of the far-left have more sympathy for Russia then Russia’s victims. I do understand Rooney is a Marxist, but plenty of Marxists believe in Europe’s right to defend ourselves against Russia.
Jesus the UK is properly mental these days. Fair play Sally
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Why do people decide to die on this hill? Palestine action broke into an RAF base and damaged military equipment. You can support Palestine without supporting proscribed groups.
I find it funny that they wwre branded as a terrorist organisation because they threw some paint on an RAF plane – can anyone think of a more legitimate target than a military plane?
From her article:
> The present UK Government has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights and freedoms, including the right to express and read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel. The ramifications for cultural and intellectual life in the UK – where the eminent poet Alice Oswald has already been arrested, and an increasing number of artists and writers can no longer safely travel to Britain to speak in public – are and will be profound.
This is why she is explicitly supporting PA. Since so many people are asking.
Proud of Sally.
I support Labour, they have more to offer the UK than any other party.
They obviously are not able to deal with the Gaza issue, they can’t be too overt in public because the media savages them on behalf of the corporate political right.
This proscription of Palestine Action is as optically stupendous as removing the whip for calling for a ceasefire a year ago.
I feel sorry for Labour, they are the right people – but everything and everyone is against them.
So proud of the incredibly talented Sally though. One of Ireland’s best.
Absolutely disgraceful what is going on in the UK with this. They’re simply trying to silence anything related to Palestine. Try them under criminal charges but terrorism? Pure censorship.
The videos I’ve seen from the protests on TikTok. Hundreds of police being put onto the streets to arrest elderly people for holding a placard with writing.
This is exactly what’s needed. Fair play Sally. What a legend.
Support her and all that but does Palestine Action even exist any more? If I were Palestine Action the first thing I’d do on the day of the ban is launch a new group called “Definitely Not Palestine Action No Way Completely Different Guys” with a different logo and just carry on exactly as before. It’s not like a group like this has a load of assets or a huge member base or a strong brand.
You have to wonder how the UK government thought this was going to work out, all they’ve done is give a load of free publicity to activists and made themselves look like authoritarian idiots at the same time.
People seem more focused on Palestine Action than Palestine itself. There’s an infinite number of groups that could be supported in lieu of them.
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Seems it’s more about the activists themselves than helping Palestinians.
More power to her
It’s fine. Fair play. She won’t be able to travel to the UK for a bit. Her choice.
It is nuts that a couple of hundred kilometers up the road from where I am you can’t say “I support Palestinian action” without being arrested but they allow flags supporting actual terrorists to fly and murals doing the same aren’t painted over.
The UK is going through some shameful shit.
Link to her piece: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/08/16/sally-rooney-i-support-palestine-action-if-this-makes-me-a-supporter-of-terror-under-uk-law-so-be-it/
I feel like it’s getting lost that Palestine Action damaged to the point of replacement jet engines on RAF tankers.
Of course destroying military equipment, while Europe is dealing with Russia’s invasion, will result in an organisation being proscribed.
Unfortunately, a significant amount of the far-left have more sympathy for Russia then Russia’s victims. I do understand Rooney is a Marxist, but plenty of Marxists believe in Europe’s right to defend ourselves against Russia.
Jesus the UK is properly mental these days. Fair play Sally
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Why do people decide to die on this hill? Palestine action broke into an RAF base and damaged military equipment. You can support Palestine without supporting proscribed groups.
I find it funny that they wwre branded as a terrorist organisation because they threw some paint on an RAF plane – can anyone think of a more legitimate target than a military plane?
From her article:
> The present UK Government has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights and freedoms, including the right to express and read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel. The ramifications for cultural and intellectual life in the UK – where the eminent poet Alice Oswald has already been arrested, and an increasing number of artists and writers can no longer safely travel to Britain to speak in public – are and will be profound.
This is why she is explicitly supporting PA. Since so many people are asking.
Proud of Sally.
I support Labour, they have more to offer the UK than any other party.
They obviously are not able to deal with the Gaza issue, they can’t be too overt in public because the media savages them on behalf of the corporate political right.
This proscription of Palestine Action is as optically stupendous as removing the whip for calling for a ceasefire a year ago.
I feel sorry for Labour, they are the right people – but everything and everyone is against them.
So proud of the incredibly talented Sally though. One of Ireland’s best.
Absolutely disgraceful what is going on in the UK with this. They’re simply trying to silence anything related to Palestine. Try them under criminal charges but terrorism? Pure censorship.
The videos I’ve seen from the protests on TikTok. Hundreds of police being put onto the streets to arrest elderly people for holding a placard with writing.
This is exactly what’s needed. Fair play Sally. What a legend.
Support her and all that but does Palestine Action even exist any more? If I were Palestine Action the first thing I’d do on the day of the ban is launch a new group called “Definitely Not Palestine Action No Way Completely Different Guys” with a different logo and just carry on exactly as before. It’s not like a group like this has a load of assets or a huge member base or a strong brand.
You have to wonder how the UK government thought this was going to work out, all they’ve done is give a load of free publicity to activists and made themselves look like authoritarian idiots at the same time.
People seem more focused on Palestine Action than Palestine itself. There’s an infinite number of groups that could be supported in lieu of them.
Legend.
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