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PALESTINE campaigners in Manchester are claiming victory after the city’s Metropolitan University decided to close its multimillion-pound accounts with Barclays Bank.
Student groups at the university have spearheaded a campaign to persuade its senior management to divest from Barclays because of the bank’s involvement with companies supplying arms to Israel.
Barclays is understood to handle the university’s £7.8 million payroll for staff.
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights