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Barclays targeted across northern England in action for Palestine
[Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine]

PALESTINE activists mobilised in 10 towns and cities across northern England today in a day of action against Barclays Bank.

In Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Blackburn, Bolton, Huddersfield, Stockport, Bradford, Altrincham and Preston, Palestinian flags were raised as protesters picketed or occupied Barclays branches, urging customers to close their accounts with the bank.

Barclays invests in arms firms supplying Israel with weapons used to suppress Palestinians and in Israel’s current murderous attacks on the people of Gaza.

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