{"id":1490951,"date":"2024-02-09T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1674331"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:13:45","slug":"thousands-of-people-cancel-their-bank-accounts-with-barclays-in-mass-boycott-over-israel-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/09\/thousands-of-people-cancel-their-bank-accounts-with-barclays-in-mass-boycott-over-israel-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of people cancel their bank accounts with Barclays in mass boycott over Israel support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 1500 people collectively closed their Barclays accounts on Friday 9 February, vowing not to bank with it until it ends its complicity with Israeli genocide and apartheid in Gaza and the Occupied Territories.\u00a0Thousands more also pledge never to bank with Barclays, in echoes of the South African anti-apartheid struggle.<\/p>\n

Barclays: end the complicity with Israel<\/h2>\n

UK banking giant Barclays is once again the target of mass boycott campaign, organised by the Palestine<\/a> Solidarity Campaign (PSC). More than 1500 people have closed their accounts in protest at its bankrolling of Israel\u2019s genocidal attack on Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Thousands more have signed a pledge never to bank with Barclays while it remains complicit with Israel\u2019s apartheid system. The bank faced a similar boycott campaign over its financial support for South African apartheid before eventually being forced to divest in 1986. You can join the boycott here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barclays Bank holds over \u00a31bn in shares and provides over \u00a33bn in loans and underwriting to nine companies whose weapons, components, and military technology are being used by Israel in its genocidal attacks on Palestinians.<\/p>\n

This includes General Dynamics, which produces the gun systems that arm the fighter jets used by Israel to bombard Gaza, and Elbit Systems, which produces armoured drones, munitions, and artillery weapons used by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

By providing investment and financial services to these arms companies, Barclays is facilitating the provision of weapons and technology for Israel\u2019s attacks on Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Banking is actively killing Palestinian people<\/h2>\n

9 February’s mass account closures are part of an on-going campaign aimed at highlighting Barclays toxic banking policies that make it complicit with Israel\u2019s war crimes.<\/p>\n

Barclays will be the target of social media campaigns, pickets, and sit ins until it is forced to prioritise humanity over profit. PSC started by targeting a Barclay’s branch in Whitechapel, London:<\/p>\n

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\"\ud83d\udea8\"Today, 1500 people are shutting their @BarclaysUK<\/a> accounts as a collective protest at the bank\u2019s financing of Israel\u2019s genocidal assault on Palestinians.<\/p>\n

We took our #BoycottBarclays<\/a> message direct to the bank. <\/p>\n

Join the boycott: https:\/\/t.co\/LN0s6m1SnV<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/q85AfCbG1Y<\/a><\/p>\n

— PSC (@PSCupdates) February 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n