Campaigners protest at Barclays Annual General Meeting today to demand the bank ends its complicity in Israeli apartheid, as it was forced to do in relation to South African apartheid in the 1980s Barclays invests over £1 billion in, and provides £3 billion in loans to, companies supplying weapons to Israel – used to …
The latest official government figures, collated by War on Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Campaign Against Arms Trade, reveal that the UK approved £4 million worth of arms sales to Israel in the four months that followed last year’s bombardment of Gaza. The licences cover equipment that is likely to be used if violence resumes; …