Join Merton PSC on the opening day of Wimbledon to demand that Barclays, the tournament’s sponsor, stops bankrolling arms companies supplying Israel with weapons used to commit genocide and impose military occupation and apartheid.
📍Church Road, Opposite Centre Court, SW19 (Maps link)
By accepting Barclays sponsorship, Wimbledon’s organisers are allowing Barclays to use tennis to try and improve its reputation, and hide from accountability for its role in enabling Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
Recently, it was revealed that Barclays has stopped underwriting Israeli government bonds. This is due to the huge pressure the bank has been put under through our protests, sit-ins and boycotts. However, the bank remains deeply complicit in Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians. Barclays invests over £2 billion in, and provides loans and other financial services worth £6.1 billion to, arms companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology used in its genocide in Gaza, and military invasions and ethnic cleansing across the West Bank.