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Merton Friends of Palestine

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Solidarity and activism for Palestine in Colliers Wood, Mitcham, Morden, Raynes Park, Wimbledon, South Wimbledon, Wimbledon Park, etc. Join us: linktr.ee/mertonfop

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Skwawkbox @skwawkbox.org · 28/03/2025
30+ Met police smash down Quaker meeting house doors to raid anti-genocide gathering. Religious group and anti-genocide campaigners condemn violent intrusion and baseless arrests...
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30+ Met police smash down Quaker meeting house doors to raid anti-genocide gathering
Religious group and anti-genocide campaigners condemn violent intrusion and baseless arrests Quakers in Britain have strongly condemned the violation of their place of worship by a gang of Met Poli…
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been assaulted & injured by settlers at his home in the West Bank & arrested by the IDF. No trace of him since. The vengeance is clear. Do not let Hamdan disappear. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
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Mark Kerrison 📷 @markkerrison.com · 22/11/2024
One of mine from last week of Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine. So important now that international leaders show meaningful support for the ICC arrest warrants if the international rules-based order is to continue to count for anything. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241122-un-...
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UN Rapporteur on Palestine hopes ICC arrest warrants beginning of 'long but not slow' process of accountability
The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine said, on Friday, that she hopes the International Criminal Court's (ICC) landmark arrest warrants for Israel’s Premier and former Defence Minister are the beginn...
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating Shireen Abu Akleh on International Women's Day with Sutton Friends of Palestine. 🥺🥹🎈🪽🌟👏💐🙏
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating Francesca Albanese on International Women's Day with Sutton Friends of Palestine. 💥🌟👏💐🙏
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating Ahed Tamimi on International Women's Day with Sutton Friends of Palestine. 💥🌟👏💐🙏
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating Women of Hebron on International Women's Day with Sutton Friends of Palestine. 💥🌟👏💐🙏
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating Hajar Harb on International Women's Day with Sutton Friends of Palestine. 💥🌟👏💐🙏
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating Nadia Sawalha on International Women's Day with Sutton Friends of Palestine. 💥🌟👏💐🙏
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Shake the London's Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Collective Investment Vehicle (CIV)! Divest for Palestine! #SHAKETHECIV #DIVESTFORPALESTINE
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
South London activists for Palestine enter Kingston Upon Thames town centre among honks and cheers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtAZ...
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Activists Enter Kingston Upon Thames Town Centre
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The Petitions Team rejected the petition we submitted "Proscribe Israel's ruling party Likud led by Netanyahu as Terrorist Organisation" with the motivation: "It calls for an action relating to a particular individual, or organisation outside of the UK Government or Parliament."
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Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Concerned about the introduction of "respect orders" Research by @stopwatchuk.bsky.social has highlighted the impacts of orders on already overpoliced communities. www.stop-watch.org/what-we-do/c...
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OUT OF ORDER
Critiques of stop-search powers granted to police forces as part of the civil orders legislation framework
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Join our 5th Walk for Palestine in South London! 🗓️ Saturday 1st March 2025 ⏲️ 11:45am 📍 Wimbledon to Kingston For full schedule see: instagram.com/p/DGb44CFIRkQ/
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Skwawkbox @skwawkbox.org · 23/02/2025
Video: boy targeted by Israel lobby to cow BBC to delete Gaza documentary was in award-winning C4 doc. Propagandists didn't have issue in 2023 with family links, when Israel's reputation wasn't yet fully shredded...
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Video: boy targeted by Israel lobby to cow BBC to delete Gaza documentary was in award-winning C4 doc
Propagandists didn’t have issue in 2023 with family links, when Israel’s reputation wasn’t yet fully shredded 2023 Abdullah Al-Yazouri and 2025 Abdullah Al-Yazouri. The BBC has ri…
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Today our friends of Enfield People's Theatre and ourselves had a bit of a rough time, as the Prime Minister himself came to Wimbledon to join the counter-protesters and disrupt the 'Netanyahu on Trial' street play!
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
21 Feb - our last session outside Wimbledon Quarter to promote the 'Netanyahu on Trial' street play by Enfield People's Theatre. Among Morden, Wimbledon and Colliers Wood, our most staunch activist set a record of 10.5 hours of street stall, petitioning and leafletting sessions!
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Skwawkbox @skwawkbox.org · 21/02/2025
170+ leading British Jews (and counting) call on BBC to restore documentary it deleted to please Israel lobby groups. Reject propagandists' 'cynical' complaints, broadcaster told...
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170+ leading British Jews call on BBC to restore documentary it deleted to please Israel lobby groups
Reject propagandists’ ‘cynical’ complaints, broadcaster told A group of more than 170 leading Jewish Britons – a number that is still growing – has written to BBC boss…
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Our stall yesterday 19 Feb '25 in Wimbledon at lunchtime. We had BDS, anti-apartheid and anti arms sales leaflets on our stall, and also gave out leaflets to promote our street theatre event on Saturday 22nd.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
18 Feb '25 - Leafletting outside Raynes Park station to promote the 'Nentanyahu on Trial' street play by Enfield People's Theatre.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Look out the fucking window London Evening Standard established 1827.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Stall and leafletting outside Wimbledon Quarter, 12 Feb '25: - this Saturday 11am: travel with us from Wimbledon Station to the national march in London - next Saturday 12 noon: attend Enfield People's Theatre "Netanyahu on Trial" play outside Wimbledon Station End the siege, free Palestine ✊🇵🇸
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Enfield People's Theatre Netanyahu on Trial 🗓️ Saturday 22 February 2025 🕛 12 noon 📍 Outside Wimbledon Station Free Event - All Welcome!
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Greg Herriett @gregherriett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A Tory Councillor in the London Borough of Sutton was the source of a Times smear campaign against a teenage constituent. Councillor Tom Drummond spouted lies about the constituent for a Times article published during the meeting where the teenager was addressing the Council.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Come join us at our lunchtime stall this Saturday 8th February outside the monthly Mitcham Craft & Food Market. With Trump in power and plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza, it's more important than ever to keep up the fight.
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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just watched this. The power imbalance is a demonstration of cowardice.
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Turn Left Media @handle.invalid · 01/02/2025
Tory Cllr VILIFIES Local Palestine Activist As Anti-Semitic Watch 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnL...
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Skwawkbox @skwawkbox.org · 02/02/2025
Sutton teen smeared in Murdoch Times after council backs Israel divestment motion. Tory councillor attacks teenage constituent in press after success of BDS move...
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Sutton teen smeared in Murdoch Times after council backs Israel divestment motion
Tory councillor attacks teenage constituent in press after success of BDS move Image: Sutton Friends of Palestine. Last Monday, a packed chamber of Sutton councillors backed a seismic petition to d…
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Curtis Daly @curtisdaly.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A Tory Cllr baselessly attacks Sutton constituent Tommy Oliver as an anti-semite - for simply pushing a petition calling on Israeli divestment. (It was passed by the council). I had the pleasure of speaking to Tommy myself, check it out, it's not been covered in the media! 👇
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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Good to be outside Croydon Town Hall tonight, along with the Croydon Green Network and various Palestinian solidarity groups, demanding the council divests its pensions to ensure we are not funding genocide. #FreePalestine #Divest #Croydon
Group of people with placards and banners, including one saying 'Croydon Trade Unions'People holding extinction symbol and Palestine flags
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Glad to see Sutton Council agree to end investments in companies complicit in human rights violations in Gaza/Palestine It brings even more shame on Labour & Conservatives on Croydon Council who worked together to refuse our petition and keep investing in war crimes www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Sutton Friends of Palestine divestment petition speech by Tommy Oliver
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We stand in solidarity with Tommy Oliver and Sutton Friends of Palestine and we endorse their statement. instagram.com/p/DFjbpf4IEWD/
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Sutton Friends of Palestine divestment petition speech by Tommy Oliver. Sutton Council voted in favour and approved the petition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyV...
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Sutton Friends of Palestine divestment petition speech by Tommy Oliver
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We so wish that our Labour (@mertonlabour.bsky.social), Lib Dem and Conservative Councillors at Merton Council could also make us proud of our own borough for leading divestment from complicity in Israel's apartheid, ethnic cleansing ang genocide of Palestinians. www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
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Palestine protesters force debate as council agrees to review pension fund
The debate followed a petition launched by the Sutton Friends of Palestine, which attracted over 1,800 signatures
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Stop the smearing @thetimes.com. Stop stoking the prejudices @thetimes.com. Stop stoking the hatred @thetimes.com. And quoting the smear you spread is so cowardly. Have some decency and some self respect. Remove that lurid headline and apologise. Shame on you.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Walk for Palestine, Sutton to Croydon, 25 Jan 2025. Activists from Croydon, Merton and Sutton arrive in Croydon N End to hold the concluding rally. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-S...
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Walks for Palestine arrive in Croydon
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Walk for Palestine, Sutton to Croydon, 25th Jan 2025. We started 2 in Sutton and ended 25+ in Croydon. First stop by Sutton Civic Offices; by then we were 8. We asked a passer by to take a group photo of us. She took a good one and then also accidentally started this brief clip.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Walk for Palestine from Sutton to Croydon Saturday 25 January 2025 With Merton Friends of Palestine, Sutton Friends of Palestine and Croydon 4 Palestine. Further details at: www.instagram.com/p/DFGnTPfo47J/ or: chat.whatsapp.com/GUyhgq3gWNqD...
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Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I've spent today listening to people who attended @pscupdates.bsky.social demonstration on Saturday - some horrible experiences, descriptions of confusing guidance & disproportionate reactions from the Met as well as lies about protestors use of force www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
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Zoë Garbett AM demands answers from Met over Palestine policing
Following this weekend’s disgraceful policing tactics from the Metropolitan Police against protestors organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) to urge the British government to stop arming...
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It's started. This is what the rest of the world may see more and more of the United Kingdom, while British citizens may never again be allowed to protest against censorship and propaganda outside the BBC headquarters.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Catching up with @yaelkahn.bsky.social in central London during the 23rd national demonstration for Palestine, 18 Jan 2025.
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Mr Smith @justice30.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#London - 'Police SHUT DOWN #Gaza Protest - But New Revelations Will Shock You' Owen Jones w/ Ben Jamal 📺 #ComplicitInGenocide 📺 🪧🕊️🪧 #WeWillMarch 🪧🕊️🪧 🕊️ #RightToProtest 🕊️ youtu.be/VWCVfpdTwDg
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Police SHUT DOWN BBC Gaza Protest - But New Revelations Will Shock You w/. Ben Jamal
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Revoltinghippie @revoltinghippie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
#WeWillMarch I've been going on anti-war protests since 1968. I have never witnessed anything as dark and sinister as the past 14 months
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Stop the War Coalition @stwc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We met again with the Met Police today after they declared their intention to use draconian powers to prevent our protest at the BBC on Saturday. It's now abundantly clear the real aim is to block us from protesting at the BBC under any circumstances. Latest postion 🔽 #WeWillMarch
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#WeWillMarch
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
None of us are free until everyone is free. Speech by Jocelyn in Brixton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBu...
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None of us are free until everyone is free
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/01/2025
What specifically is Donold distracting everyone from by calling for war on Canada and Greenland
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Open meeting of Merton Friends of Palestine at the Cuppa Chaii in Wimbledon to plan the activities ahead.
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