Councillor Ismail Uddin
Nominee Profile
Location: Bradford
HSBC, one of the biggest banking and financial institutions in the world, has an utterly distressing record of supporting the brutality and genocide against the Palestinian people.
Throughout the multitude of global outcry to Israel's apartheid and invasions, HSBC continues to offer financial services, investments, and loans to corporations that manufacture the very weapons, military technology, and surveillance technologies against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories. Organisations, such as War on Want and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, have documented the support of HSBC to arms companies such as the Elbit Systems - Israel's largest private weapons contractor - who are responsible for drones and munitions that have dropped bombs on hospitals, schools, refugee camps, and residential neighborhoods.
HSBC's complicity does not end there: they also plug money into companies involved in constructing and maintaining Israel's illegal settlements (settlements condemned by the United Nations as a violation of international law), forcibly displacing Palestinian families from their land and demolishing their farmlands, thereby institutionalising apartheid and oppression. With these financial ties, HSBC is complicit in the violence and continued suffering of Palestinians. Now more than ever, with the world watching the on-going bombardment and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, it is important and necessary to demand that HSBC divests from all companies committed to military war crimes against Palestinians. No bank should finance a genocide – full stop.
I wholeheartedly reject this nomination and refuse to be associated with such companies that have no morals.
Councillor Ismail Uddin
Throughout the multitude of global outcry to Israel's apartheid and invasions, HSBC continues to offer financial services, investments, and loans to corporations that manufacture the very weapons, military technology, and surveillance technologies against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories. Organisations, such as War on Want and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, have documented the support of HSBC to arms companies such as the Elbit Systems - Israel's largest private weapons contractor - who are responsible for drones and munitions that have dropped bombs on hospitals, schools, refugee camps, and residential neighborhoods.
HSBC's complicity does not end there: they also plug money into companies involved in constructing and maintaining Israel's illegal settlements (settlements condemned by the United Nations as a violation of international law), forcibly displacing Palestinian families from their land and demolishing their farmlands, thereby institutionalising apartheid and oppression. With these financial ties, HSBC is complicit in the violence and continued suffering of Palestinians. Now more than ever, with the world watching the on-going bombardment and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, it is important and necessary to demand that HSBC divests from all companies committed to military war crimes against Palestinians. No bank should finance a genocide – full stop.
I wholeheartedly reject this nomination and refuse to be associated with such companies that have no morals.
Councillor Ismail Uddin