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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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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Finn didn't like our remark and blocked us. 🤷
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Yours is a textbook example of an oxymoron Finn. In the very post where you claim that you are not minimising, instead of referring to Israel's GENOCIDE of Palestinians as 'war', you refer to Israel's GENOCIDE of Palestinians as 'horrors', thereby still minimising Israel's GENOCIDE of Palestinians.
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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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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How can you expect a former human rights lawyer who doesn't care about apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide, to care about anyone?
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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
YouTube video by Merton Friends of Palestine
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This motivation however is different from the criterion publicly declared in the 'Standards for petition': "It calls for action relating to a particular individual, or organisation that the UK Government or Parliament is not responsible for" petition.parliament.uk/help
petition.parliament.uk
How petitions work
Official online petitions in response to issues of the day, listing the number that got a Government response, and those that have been debated in the House of Parliament
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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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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
So many clues that we are now heading in the wrong direction in Britain with regards to citizens' rights and freedoms. bsky.app/profile/mert...
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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 · 25/02/2025
You have all the very facts under your very eyes Daniel. You can read the text of Tommy's petition and also listen to his speech. You can read the retraction of one of the false claims published by The Times. Opening your eyes and drawing your conclusions can be easier than resorting to ad hominems.
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hey Daniel Sevitt, is it your eagerness to confirm your own bias that made you miss this bit in the Novara Media's article? "A spokesperson for SFOP said: "... any care of duty to the teenage constituent ignored in favour of political point scoring based on lies." web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/mert...
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Merton Friends of Palestine (@mertonfop.bsky.social)
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 · 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 · 12/02/2025
Coverage by Novara Media (@novaramedia.com): "Tory Councillor Accused of Smearing Teenager As Antisemite for Palestine Petition" novaramedia.com/2025/02/11/t...
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Tory Councillor Accused of Smearing Teenager As Antisemite for Palestine Petition | Novara Media
When Tommy Oliver started a BDS petition, he had no idea it would be debated on Holocaust Memorial Day. That didn't stop the leader of the Sutton Conservatives calling the petition antisemitic and run...
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Times now retracts one false claim but we still want to know what happened behind the scenes for this false claim to end up being published on national media. We want to know who originally came up with this false claim and who needs to apologise to Tommy Oliver. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
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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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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We wonder, did Universities UK mention this £450 million divestment from grave violations of international law and human rights as one of their key priorities?
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Dear Universities UK, as UK students we are deeply concerned by recently released research ... which reveals UK universities invest over £450million in companies complicit in Israel’s grave violations of international law and Palestinian human rights." palestinecampaign.eaction.online/StudentsUK
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UK Students: Demand Universities UK Ensure Complicit Investments Are Raised with All UK University Executive Heads!
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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 @turnleftmedia.co.uk · 01/02/2025
Tory Cllr VILIFIES Local Palestine Activist As Anti-Semitic Watch 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnL...
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Coverage by The SKWAWKBOX (@skwawkbox.bsky.social): "Sutton teen smeared in Murdoch Times after council backs Israel divestment motion. Tory councillor attacks teenage constituent in press after success of BDS move..." bsky.app/profile/skwa...
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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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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Coverage by The Crispin Flintoff Show: "How a council meeting made national media" www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVLC...
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How a council meeting made national media
YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Coverage by Turn Left Media (@turnleftmedia.co.uk): "Tory Cllr VILIFIES Local Palestine Activist As Anti-Semitic" bsky.app/profile/turn...
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Coverage by MyLondon: "Palestine protesters force Sutton Council debate on Israel-linked companies in pension fund" 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 · 04/02/2025
Sutton Friends of Palestine divestment petition speech by Tommy Oliver: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyV...
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Sutton Friends of Palestine divestment petition speech by Tommy Oliver
YouTube video by Sutton Friends of Palestine
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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is the text of the petition started by Tommy Oliver and debated and approved by Sutton Council: moderngov.sutton.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...
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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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Merton Friends of Palestine @mertonfop.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We also expect much more than waffling and excuses from our Councillors in Merton. bsky.app/profile/mert...
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