Email British Cycling to drop HSBC as their main sponsor!

Palestinian cyclists have called on British Cycling to end their partnership with HSBC, due to its financing of companies arming Israel.

HSBC invests over £830million worth of shares in military and technology companies that sell weapons and equipment to Israel, including approximately £100million worth of shares in Caterpillar. Caterpillar sells its bulldozers to the Israeli military, which are weaponised and used to demolish Palestinian homes, factories, agricultural land and civilian infrastructure, including water pipes and networks on Palestinian territory assigned by the UN.

On July 22nd 2019, for example, Caterpillar equipment was used in what Amnesty International has labbeled a war crime in the demolition of Palestinian homes in Sur Baher, East Jerusalem.

Caterpillar also provides equipment used to reinforce the illegal Apartheid Wall on the West Bank as well as the wall in Gaza, and for the construction of illegal settlements and settlement infrastructure on stolen Palestinian land. Israel’s occupation, illegal settlements and military regime often result in entrenched obstacles for cyclists in Palestine by restricting their freedom of movement and causing severe and also fatal injuries.

British Cycling has an obligation to show moral leadership and to not endorse HSBC’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes.

Tell British Cycling to drop HSBC as their main sponsor and partner!

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I am reaching out to you because of your partnership with HSBC. HSBC  invest over £830million in, and provide syndicated loans worth up to £19billion for, companies arming Israel. These include approximately £100million worth of shares in Caterpillar, who are one of the main companies providing the Israeli military with bulldozers used to demolish houses or whole villages as forms of collective punishment or to build illegal Jewish-only settlements. These constitute war crimes according to international law. Sports has the potential to do tremendous good in bringing communities together, and can be an effective way of delivering social justice. I'm proud of the club’s ambition “to get millions more people on their bikes by 2020”. However, allowing HSBC to brand itself through British Cycling is endorsing HSBC’s involvement in crimes against the Palestinian people. Therefore, I  am deeply concerned about the current links with HSBC and the resulting complicity in violations of international law and human rights. 
More than 25,000 individuals have written to HSBC directly concerning this matter, and monthly protests have been staged in 40 locations across the UK since July 2017. At HSBC’s AGM in April, no issue received more questions than HSBC’s complicity in supporting the arms trade with Israel.   Please do not let British cycling have its good reputation tarnished through association. We must stand on the right side of history and end our partnership with HSBC, until HSBC stops arming Israel. I look forward to your response.

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Email British Cycling to drop HSBC as their main sponsor!