Barclays does not invest in companies that supply weapons used by Israel in Gaza, the British bank said on Wednesday.
The bank has also faced criticism for providing financial services to defence firms that produce equipment used by the Israeli Defence Force.
Besides urging customers to boycott the bank, demonstrators have expanded protests to include defacing buildings and branches, using red paint to symbolise the bloodshed in Gaza. "We trade in shares of listed companies in response to client instruction or demand and that may result in us holding shares. We are not making investments for Barclays and Barclays is not a 'shareholder' or 'investor' in that sense in relation to these companies," it said.
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