Boycott Barclays Brighton March 2012.mpg
Channel: BoycottBarclays
Date: 2012-03-11

On 10th March activists held a demonstration in Barclays Bank, North Street, Brighton to call on Barclays to end its investments in apartheid Israel and the arms trade. 
Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity, Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Smash EDO and Sussex Uni Friends of Palestine came together to increase the pressure on Barclays following successful demonstrations outside Barclays Bank on Sussex Uni campus during Apartehid Week, and a large demonstration outside the North Street branch on Saturday the 25th February.
Barclays Bank have along history of profiting from suffering and war, and most people will be aware of their involvement in apartheid South Africa in the 70's and 80's. Today the bank profits from Israel's apartheid system in Palestine. 
Barclays is the only major British high street bank with significant investments in Israel, holding shares in 8 Israeli companies* and a number of companies linked to Israel's illegal settlements**. The bank also owns shares in Tesco and Sainsbury, High Street stores that sell settlement produce in the UK. 
Barclays is also the largest global investor in the arms trade and holds shares in several companies supplying arms to Israel: Smiths, Rolls Royce, Meggit, Raytheon, BAE, Chemring and Ultra Electronics. Barclays provides market maker services to ITT Exelis, the mother company of Brighton's local arms company EDO, on the NYSE.
Barclays eventually pulled out of apartheid South Africa in 1986, after years of consumer pressure. Now is the time to stop profiteering from Israeli apartheid. 
What can you do?
 Cut up your card and cancel your account with Barclays Bank
 Write to Barclays and call on them to end all investment in Israeli companies, companies linked to Israel's illegal settlements, and the arms trade
 Tell you friends and encourage them to take action against Barclays across the country.
For more info:
Brightonpalestine.org - Brightonpalestinecampaign.org - Smashedo.org.uk
The small print...
*Barclay's investment in Israeli companies: 
Tower Semiconductor, Gilat Satellite Networks, Ceregon Networks Ltd, Ituran Location and Control Limited, Radware Ltd, Ezchip Semiconductor Ltd, Mellanox Technologies Ltd and Teva. 
**Barclay's investment in companies linked to Israel's illegal settlements: 
Unilever, which owns Beigel&Beigel, a company based in Barkan settlement industrial zone; France Telecom, which owns the Orange brandname (Orange's franchisee, Partner Communications, owns mobile phone antennas in the settlements); G4S, which provides services to Israeli and West Bank prisons and police stations; Motorola which supplies security equipment and communications equipment to the Israeli army, settlements and for use in the apartheid wall; and F&C Reit, owner of settlement real estate through British Israel Investments.