| Lloyds TSB helps to enforce the siege of Gaza

Lloyds TSB - enforces siege of Gaza

Lloyds TSB helps to enforce the siege of Gaza

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Lloyds TSB - trampling on the people of GAza"Lloyds TSB Chairman, Sir Victor Blank, is a governor of Tel Aviv University, Chair of UJS/Hillel, a member of the Advisory Board of the United Jewish Israel Appeal and is involved in Labour Friends of Israel. UJS/Hillel assists members of the pro-Israel Union of Jewish Students, a group that works to silence Palestinian voices on British campuses."

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Campaign News: Winner of Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel for Business & Commerce to return award in protest at banks actions against UK charity

In 2004, the Zionist-led Board of Deputies of British Jews, staunch defenders of Israeli crimes, accused the charity Interpal of involvement in ‘terrorism’, for which smear they had to later pay damages.

Lloyds TSB Chairman, Sir Victor Blank, is a governor of Tel Aviv University, Chair of UJS/Hillel, a member of the Advisory Board of the United Jewish Israel Appeal and is involved in Labour Friends of Israel. UJS/Hillel assists members of the pro-Israel Union of Jewish Students, a group that works to silence Palestinian voices on British campuses.

One Lloyds TSB director, Sir David Manning, is an ex-ambassador to both Israel and the USA and was Foreign Policy Adviser to Tony Blair during the planning for the invasion of Iraq.

Now Blank, Manning & Co., have moved against Interpal; Lloyds TSB has demanded that the Islamic Bank of Britain cease all dealings with the registered charity. By hitting Interpal’s banking facilities, Lloyds TSB aims to support Israel by shutting off the trickle of aid that Interpal has managed to get into occupied Palestine over the years of Israel’s brutal siege.

British bank customers, and those who support Palestinians’ right to existence, can oppose this sadistic move by Lloyds TSB. While Palestinians are facing Israeli bulldozers, snipers, torture chambers and denial of medicines and food, we have an opportunity to join in their resistance to the vast criminal alliance that is trying to crush them.

Join the planned protests outside Lloyds TSB branches in your area.
Organise a one- or two-person protest outside a Lloyds TSB branch near you (we’ll send leaflets and publicity materials).
Make sure local Lloyds TSB branches and cashpoints are kept covered with informational material, posters, stickers, etc.
Write, email and call Lloyds TSB to complain of their cruel move against the people of Palestine.
Donate to Interpal, however little, and send a message of support.

When Bush, Obama, Blair, Brown and Blank are united against the Palestinian people, we have a duty to join with Palestinians to resist the crime. The crime has now washed up on your doorstep at a Lloyds TSB Branch near you. You can make a difference.

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Saturday 22 November, Protest outside Lloyds TSB in Edinburgh. Similar protests took place outside a Lloyds TSB branch in Glasgow on the same day.

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Saturday 6 December, Protests continue outside Lloyds TSB in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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Join the protests this Saturday, 13 December 12noon-2pm, in Edinburgh & Glasgow. Or - organise with friends a protest outside your local LTSB branch.
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Latest Update from Interpal:

Urgent Action Needed

Due to great demand, Interpal has drafted letters that our supporters may post to Lloyds TSB, the Prime Minister and the Bank of England. We wish to thank everyone for their continued support and encourage all of our supporters to keep up the pressure against Lloyds TSB’s unjustified actions.

1. Please contact the Prime Minister’s office.
Download the draft letter here.
The Rt. Hon Gordon Brown MP, The Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London UK, SW1A 2AA

2. Please contact the Bank of England.
Download the draft letter here.
Mr. Mervyn King, Governor, Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London UK, EC2R 8AH

3. Please contact Lloyds TSB.
Download the draft letter here.
Eric Daniels, CEO, Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, 25 Gresham Street, London UK, EC2V 7HN

4. Sign our two petitions:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/interpalaccount/
http://www.petitiononline.com/FOSISPal/petition.html

5. Useful Contacts:

Lloyds TSB: Eleanor Ross - Corporate Communications ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Lloyds TSB: Eric Daniels - CEO ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Charity Commission (020 7674 2409 or 0845 3000218)
Bank of England (020 7601 4444)

6. Please contact your MP and ask them to sign the following motion

EDM 98

03.12.2008

Lloyds TSB Plc and British Charities

“That this House notes the excellent work of the British charity Interpal in helping the Palestinians with £40 million worth of humanitarian aid development since 1994; acknowledges that Lloyds TSB Group Plc has served notice to the Islamic Bank of Britain to discontinue its services to Interpal or subsequently to face closure itself without offering any reason; further notes the wide distress that this has the potential to cause, in both the local Muslim community and the wider Arab world, since both hold the charity in particularly high regard; further notes that Interpal has withstood three previous investigations by the Charity Commission; and calls upon the Government to note the precedent this will lay down regarding any other charities Lloyds may choose to target and to ensure that this bank which is in receipt of enormous state benefit be pressurised to behave in a socially responsible manner.”

Interpal is a respected UK charity which helps alleviate the agony of Gaza. It has been thoroughly investigated by the Charities Commission (following malicious complaints by US Government) and had been given the all clear!

Lloyds TSB piles on the agony for Gazans by

closing Interpal accounts - forcing the charity to close
giving no reasons
ordering IBB (Islamic Bank of Britain) to cease all dealing with Interpal

Lloyds TSB demonstrates this cruelty in a week when

ACTION YOU CAN TAKE

1. Demonstrate / organise a demonstration, however small, outside your local Lloyds TSB –use the SPSC leaflet to inform passers-by

2. Write/call to protest:
       Islamic Bank of Britain plc         Tel: 0121 452 7330 / 0845 6060786
       Lloyds TSB Bank plc,                  Tel: 020 7661 4778
       Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

3. Threaten to move your account from Lloyds TSB to a competitor if you have one

4. This call is issued initially by Scottish PSC and Friends of Al Aqsa. Add your organisations endorsement: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

5. Sign the petition:http://www.petitiononline.com/FOSISPal/petition.html

Download the Glasgow leaflet

This statement was issued by Scottish PSC on 6 Jan 2005: Victory! Royal Bank of Scotland retreats in face of determined opposition