Will you join the campaign to boycott Barclays?

This is the second mass account closure day since we launched the call to boycott Barclays in January and means that over 2500 people have now shut their Barclays accounts because of its complicity in Israel’s attacks. Through our boycotts, protests and pickets outside its branches, Barclays is getting our message loud and clear: if you continue to enable Israel’s genocidal violence, you will lose many thousands of customers who stand with Palestine.   

We need to keep the pressure up! Whether or not you currently bank with Barclays, click the button below to join the campaign.  

If you’re not a Barclays customer, you’ll be directed to write to the bank’s senior management to let them know you will boycott the bank while it supports Israeli apartheid. If you’re still a Barclays customer, you’ll be directed to pledge to join the third mass closure day on Thursday 9 May, the date of Barclays Annual General Meeting. Closing a Barclays bank account is quick and easy, and has a direct impact on the bank. Pledge below and we’ll follow up with detailed instructions.

Today’s account closure day coincides with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, commemorated on the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre, when apartheid South Africa’s police killed 69 Black protesters demonstrating against the racist pass laws. Barclays faced a sustained boycott campaign over its financial support of apartheid in South Africa, before eventually being forced to withdraw in 1986.  

Our campaigning will once again force Barclays to end its support for apartheid.

Our Palestinian partners are clear about what they ask of the solidarity movement in Britain: work to end the complicity of your government, corporations and institutions. Targeted boycott campaigns against companies enabling Israel’s colonial violence, like Barclays, are a concrete and meaningful way you can show solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom.  

Please get involved and #BoycottBarclays.

Yours sincerely,

Lewis,

PSC Campaigns Officer