(Reuters) Jonathan Saul - Every Thursday, supporters of Palestinians and Israelis take their fight to London's main shopping district, converging on department store Marks and Spencer on Oxford Street to bombard passers-by with chants, drums, and politically-charged leaflets. For more than two years, Palestinian supporters have been staging a weekly picket outside M&S, urging consumers to boycott the store for what they say is its support for the Jewish state - a charge Marks and Spencer denies. But in recent months Jewish protesters have set up a counter stall to tell their side of the story.
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