Pro-Palestine activists protest outside Barclays Bank branches accusing it of ‘arming Israel’
PRO-Palestine activists singled out Barclays Bank for ‘arming Israel’ by protesting outside nearly 50 branches across the UK yesterday.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) accused Barclays of holding “substantial ties” to arms companies supplying weapons used in the conflict in Gaza.
PSC director Ben Jamal said: “Financial support to arms companies by corporations like Barclays must cease immediately.”
The group encouraged its supporters to join marches in 48 locations, including outside Barclays’ on Tottenham Court Road in London, where around 100 protestors chanted the controversial rallying cry ‘From the River to the Sea’.
But the demonstrators were prevented from getting too close to the branch as cops formed a human wall to blockade them.
It comes after Rishi Sunak urged police to “not merely manage protests but police them”.
Giving an address to the nation on Friday, the Prime Minister warned democracy is being targeted by extremists in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks and urged campaigners to protest “with empathy”.
