By Felix Armstrong and Patrick Sawyer
Pro-Palestinian campaigners joined environmental activists in staging a sit-in at Barclays bank in Cambridge – calling for an end to the bank’s “investment” in Israel’s operations in Gaza and its funding of the fossil fuel industry.
A group of 15 student and local campaigners occupied Barclays’ St Andrew’s Street branch on Saturday, staging a three-hour “die-in” on the floor of the bank before leaving and marching through the town centre.
The protesters claimed that Barclays is “complicit” in Israel’s killing of thousands of civilians in Gaza, with accusations that the bank also holds more than £1 billion in shares and provides £3 billion in loans to companies whose weapons, components and military technology are being used in its military operations.