Pro-Palestine activists are drawing attention to alleged complicity of British banks in the oppression of the Palestinian people, due to their massive investments in Israeli arms companies and links to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. On 15 February, protestors stormed the Manchester offices of Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon due to the bank’s $10 million investment in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Elbit Systems provides 85 percent of Israel’s military drone fleet, land-based equipment, and missiles, bullets, and other weaponry that have been used ag…