Compelled to witness: Pennie Quinton remembers John Lynes

‘John was welcome everywhere in Hebron.’

by Pennie Quinton 7th August 2026

The memorial Meeting for the Quaker peace activist John Lynes was held at Hastings Friends’ Meeting House on 9 May 2026. John fundamentally changed me during the brief time I spent with him in the occupied Palestinian Territories in 2005.