{"id":52483,"date":"2026-10-20T04:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=52483"},"modified":"2026-10-20T04:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:28:31","slug":"why-terrorism-laws-stopped-sally-rooney-selling-books-in-the-uk-podcast-sally-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=52483","title":{"rendered":"Why terrorism laws stopped Sally Rooney selling books in the UK \u2013 podcast | Sally Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">For now there might be a copy or two of Intermezzo left kicking around in your local bookshop \u2013 snap it up if you haven\u2019t already, because soon that will be it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last year, Sally Rooney said she would be using her royalties to support Palestine Action, a group that is proscribed as a terrorist organisation under UK law. Since then, thousands of people have been arrested for supporting the group. Now, faced with the risk of prosecution under terrorism legislation, Rooney and her publishers have decided to stop supplying her books to retailers in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Over the weekend, hundreds of authors signed an open letter supporting her. The rightwing press, meanwhile, have called Rooney a \u201ctedious and malicious\u201d \u201cposturing ingrate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><strong>Zoe Williams<\/strong> explains the furore surrounding one of the most successful novelists of her generation, while <strong>Haroon Siddique<\/strong> tells <strong>Nosheen Iqbal<\/strong> how Rooney\u2019s stance could affect the supreme court\u2019s ruling on Palestine Action.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><\/span> Photograph: Kin Cheung\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For now there might be a copy or two of Intermezzo left kicking around in your local bookshop \u2013 snap it up if you haven\u2019t already, because soon that will be it. Last year, Sally Rooney said she would be using her royalties to support Palestine Action, a group that is proscribed as a terrorist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1001,4098,515,19528,2758,2026,3951,9924],"class_list":{"0":"post-52483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-laws","10":"tag-podcast","11":"tag-rooney","12":"tag-sally","13":"tag-selling","14":"tag-stopped","15":"tag-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}