Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
13 November
UK-WIDE PROTESTS AFTER BANK ATTACK ON PALESTINIAN CHARITY
On this day in 2008, Lloyds TSB announced the withdrawal of banking facilities from Interpal, a UK-based charity supporting the Palestinians. A protest campaign spread from Scotland across the UK. Lloyds TSB then asked for a meeting with SPSC representatives in Glasgow where they said they “had no choice” since the US had designated Interpal as a terrorist organisation.
احتجاجات على مستوى المملكة المتحدة بعد تهديد بنكي لسحب التسهيلات لمؤسسة خيرية فلسطينية
13 نوفمبر
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2008 ، أعلن بنك الادخار لمؤسسة لويد سحب التسهيلات المصرفية من مؤسسة انتربال الخيرية لدعم الفلسطينيين، مقرها المملكة المتحدة . انتشرت حملة احتجاجية من اسكتلندا عبر المملكة المتحدة. ثم طلبت مؤسسة لويد عقد اجتماع مع ممثلي حملة التضامن الاسكتلندية مع الفلسطينيين في غلاسكو وذكروا إنهم "ليس لديهم خيار" لأن الولايات المتحدة صنفت إنتربال كمنظمة إرهابية. استمرت الحملة في الانتشار حتى صمم بنك إنجلترا حلًا استمرت فيه إنتربال في الحصول على الخدمات المصرفية.
In late 2008 Lloyds TSB announced the withdrawal of banking facilities from Interpal, a UK-based charity supporting the Palestinians under occupation. Zionists applauded, none objected.
SPSC launched a campaign that spread from Scotland to Newcastle, Bristol and beyond. Lloyds TSB asked for a meeting with SPSC representatives in Glasgow, where they told us they “had no choice” due to US anti-terrorism legislation. We responded that our pledges to Palestinians meant we also “had no choice” but to continue and escalate the protests. The campaign continued to spread until a solution was reached involving the Bank of England whereby Interpal continued to have access to banking services."
Lloyds TSB wrote to Scottish PSC smearing Interpal after withdrawing banking facilities to the charity whose main work is to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. Lloyds claimed Interpal was linked with global terrorism.
Businessman hands back excellence award after bank froze Palestinian charity's accountsImraan Ladak, chairman of Kettering Town FC and 77th on the young person's Sunday Times Rich List, won an Asian Jewel award from Lloyds in 2007 for excellence in business. But after Lloyds' moved earlier this month to shut down Interpal's account, Ladak said:
"Lloyds TSB's plans can result only in escalating the horrific suffering of innocent children, supported by those with racially motivated agendas. I no longer trust that Lloyds TSB follows the equal opportunities and anti-racist principles the Asian Jewel awards are based upon."
As sponsors of the charity, Kettering Town football team wore shirts bearing Interpal's name in the team's FA Cup replay against Notts County last week, which was broadcast live.
Lloyds is one of the four clearing banks through which all UK banks must work. Last month it ordered the Islamic Bank of Britain to freeze Palestinian aid charity Interpal's account for an indefinite period, without any explanation.
Lloyds TSB was forced to close branches during protests...feeling the anger from ordinary people across the UK disgusted by Israeli massacres in Gaza and by Lloyds TSB complicity in the blockade and siege of Gaza. Protests spread from Edinburgh and Glasgow to places such as Brighton, Bristol, Bath, Newcastle.
Lloyds TSB branches across Scotland were repeatedly covered with large numbers of posters
Fresh 2020 threats to close down Interpal by closing its UK banking facilities
In the latest blow to Interpal, British bank HSBC has told its customers in the UK that it will no longer process standing-order donations to the charity from later this month, without offering any explanation why.
The threat to Interpal posed by such actions is serious enough that auditors noted in the charity's