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Bank of Ireland closes IPSC accounts – We need your help!
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press release
Saturday October 15, 2016 21:53 by 1 of Indymedia - Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
This press release was reported on the 3rd but it has only come to our attention recently and it is likely did not receive much coverage. Therefore we are posting it here. As the BDS movement has grown exponentially worldwide, marking up many victories in the struggle for Palestinian rights against Israeli apartheid, Israeli officials, including government ministers, have repeatedly spoken of their intent to attack the BDS movement abroad, seeking to use its influence with allied governments to criminalise the non-violent campaign for Palestinian rights. The Israeli Minister in charge of anti-BDS operations, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan has openly spoken of making BDS activists ‘pay the price’, and said that Israel is attempting to get banks to shut down BDS groups’ accounts. Palestinian rights’ groups in the UK, Germany, France and Austria have all had accounts closed in the recent past in what appears to be a coordinated attack. In light of this context, we view this as a sinister move by Bank of Ireland suggesting interference by the Israeli state in the business affairs of a sovereign nation |
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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1I view this as a symptom of the impact BDS is having globally. It also demonstrates the far reaching arm of the Zionists.
Attitudes are changing, with people more aware than ever of the doings of the apartheid state of Israel, they are under pressure which is why they have chosen to make this move. Where else have these people been more popular than in finance?
I urge everybody to assist our Palestinian brothers and sisters in securing freedom from the biggest human rights abuser in the world,Israel. Do it subtly if your work allows it, or in a personal capacity if it does not. Boycott everything Israeli and that supports the scumbag state.
Do not hesitate. Close your BoI account.
They forget their livelihood only exists because of their customers - those who put their money into this fucked up corporate slime.
I have no kind nor reasonable vocabulary for those who perpetuate insolent, profit driven ignorance against their fellow human beings.
But then humanity deserted Israel way before the 6-day war. And I know - I have met their brainwashed and fucked up militarily brainswashed youth.
banks and other corporate organisations closing accounts of those who offer alternative perspectives
to the status quo seems to be quite a common occurrence
witness the closing of RT news station accounts today by RBS in the UK
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/787974823913947136
https://www.rt.com/news/363013-rt-uk-accounts-blocked/
Wikileaks had their Paypal accounts frozen in the past
And previously, Iran news station PressTV was removed from SKY EPG in the UK. (but Fox lies is still there!!)
Also, closer to home, shell to sea and other activist groups have had trouble with corporate controlled
facebook accounts.
Indymedia have had their issues with service providers too in the past.
Plus ca change.
If you start to gain traction in spreading information that undermines the standard narrative of the status quo, you
WILL be targetted by it's corporate and media lackies.
That's why we all need to support independent media outlets.