US EditionProtesters Urge Wimbledon to Cut Ties with Barclays over Israel Business Deals
- On June 30, 2025, about two dozen Palestine Solidarity Campaign protesters demonstrated outside Wimbledon’s All England Club, urging the event to drop Barclays as a sponsor due to its ties to Israel.
- The protest was prompted by claims that Barclays invests and lends substantial sums to firms supplying arms to Israel, amid ongoing genocide allegations related to Gaza, which Israel denies.
- Protesters displayed banners and chanted slogans accusing Barclays of involvement in war crimes, while an artist revealed an installation honoring Hind Rajab, a young child who lost her life in Gaza earlier this year.
- Damian McCarthy, a 53-year-old PSC organiser and local resident, expressed that many individuals in Wimbledon find the situation in Gaza to be deeply disturbing, while Barclays affirmed its strong association with Wimbledon and stood by its commercial operations.
- The protest highlights ongoing public criticism of Barclays' financial role in the defense sector amid rising geopolitical tensions as NATO, the EU, and the UK seek to boost defense capabilities.
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Protesters urge Wimbledon to cut ties with Barclays over Israel deals
Pro-Palestinian protesters urged Wimbledon to drop Barclays as a sponsor Monday because of the British bank's business dealings with Israel. About two dozen protesters from Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstrated by the main entrance of the All England Club as thousands of fans arrived for Day 1 of the tournament. "They’re the bank for the arms companies that are obviously supplying weapons to Israel," protester Khalid Zalmay told The Associa…
Pro-Palestine protestors disrupt Wimbledon Open day amid sponsorship row
Approximately two dozen demonstrators from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign gathered outside Wimbledon's main entrance on Monday, urging the tennis championships to end their sponsorship deal with Barclays
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Wimbledon disrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors amid Barclays sponsorship row
Pro-Palestinian campaigners have staged a protest outside the Wimbledon tennis championships on Monday (June 30) over Barclays’ sponsorship.
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