Tell Barclays You Have Closed Your Account

*THIS ACTION IS ONLY FOR BARCLAYS CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE CLOSED THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS* If you are not a Barclays customer, please inform the bank you will no longer use its services here.

Use this action below to write to Barclays senior management to inform them you have shut your account because of the bank's complicity in Israel's genocidal assault on Palestinians.

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<div>I am writing to inform you that I have closed my Barclays bank account, and will not use any Barclays service until the bank ends all financial ties with companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel, which are used in its devastating assault on Palestinians. Israel’s ongoing bombardment and ground invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip has killed tens of thousands, a sizeable proportion of whom are children, and the vast majority of Gaza’s population have been displaced. Nowhere in Gaza is safe; entire residential neighbourhoods have been levelled, UN schools sheltering the displaced, and hospitals treating the wounded, have been targeted. Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing war crime after war crime. A group of UN experts has stated that the “wilful and systematic destruction of civilian homes and infrastructure, known as ‘domicide’, and cutting off drinking water, medicine, and essential food is clearly prohibited under international criminal law.” Further, they “remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide.” Likewise, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that there is plausible evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Amnesty International similarly outline that “Israeli forces have shown a shocking disregard for civilian lives. They have pulverized street after street of residential buildings killing civilians on a mass scale” and are “destroying essential infrastructure” in grave violation of international law. UN experts have described the scenes in Gaza as “apocalyptic”. Further, in February 2024, UN officials warned that famine is imminent in Gaza.  Despite the clarity of these facts, Barclays continues to facilitate Israel’s egregious violence. Research released in 2022 by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, War on Want, and Campaign Against Arms Trade, identified that Barclays invests over £1 billion, and provides over £3 billion in loans and underwriting, to nine companies whose weapons, components, and military technology have been used in Israel’s assaults on Palestinians, including its attacks on the Gaza Strip. This includes General Dynamics, which produces the gun systems that arm the F-16 and F-35 fighter jets being used to bombard the Gaza Strip. Barclays also invests in Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s largest arms companies, which produces 85% of UAV’s (drones) used by the Israeli army, as well as munitions, bombs, and artillery weapons used by the Israeli military. Elbit Systems has been subject to exclusion and divestment by a range of financial institutions due to its involvement with cluster munitions, and its production of weaponry used in violations of international law. Given the use of these arms in clear violations of international law, Human Rights Watch has urged that all arms trade with Israel should be immediately suspended. Likewise, Amnesty International urge a “comprehensive arms embargo” should be imposed on Israel. Barclays has a clear responsibility to end its complicity in Israel’s unlawful attacks against Palestinians. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which Barclays commits to in its operations, are clear that businesses and financial institutions must take active steps to “avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts” through both their direct activity, and business relationships. Given Barclays ongoing failure to adhere to its responsibilities under the UNGPs and end all business relationships with companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel, I have closed my Barclays bank account. I will not use any Barclays services until these financial ties are severed, as a means of preventing further genocidal violence.</div>

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