Video: Palestine Solidarity campaigners disrupt Barclays AGM

Protesters carried bodily out as bank targeted over investments in Israel and Israel-linked corporations

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) protesters have today disrupted Barclays Bank’s annual general meeting because of the bank’s extensive investments in Israel and Israel-linked customers during Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, leading to protesters being bodily carried out of the meeting by security guards:

PSC’s website explains why the bank is complicit:

Barclays is bankrolling Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians.

Our research has uncovered that Barclays bank now holds over £2 billion in shares, and provides £6.1 billion in loans and underwriting, to 9 companies whose weapons, components and military technology are being used by Israel in its attacks on Palestinians.

By providing investment and financial services to these arms companies, Barclays is facilitating the provision of weapons and technology for Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.

In addition, Barclays has an agreement with Israel to act as a ‘primary dealer’ for its government bonds. This means it helps Israel directly to raise money to fund its genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.

We’re calling on concerned people to boycott all Barclays services until the bank ends its grave complicity in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.

Barclays must #StopBankingOnApartheid and #StopBankingOnGenocide

Israel has so far murdered more than 200,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza – over 100,000 of them children, according to medical experts and volunteers and human rights groups. Almost 300,000 children are now in imminent danger of death from starvation because of Israel’s criminal blockade of food, along with water, power, medicines and other essentials for life.

The UK continues to arm the genocidal occupation.

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