We never seem to learn from history, even from the most recent events during our lifetime. Just today, for example, I had a feeling of déjà vu as a press release popped up in my email from the anti-poverty charity War on Want. The charity is launching a campaign urging people to stop Barclays Bank from supporting an apartheid regime. I actually stopped banking with Barclays in the early 1980s because of its support for apartheid South Africa, and now here I am being told that Barclays is at it again on a banking-apartheid merry-go-round. The global bank is apparently providing billions of pounds worth of investment and loans to arms companies selling weapons and military technology to the apartheid … Continue reading Barclays Bank must be held to account over its support for apartheid Israel