US: protest against Capital One over loan to Israeli's Elbit Systems

Every weekend for the past three weeks, demonstrators have banged pots and pans outside Capital One’s Cafe in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is part of a consortium of six banks that have loaned $545m to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest defence contractor. The picketers are led by Boycott, Divestment Sanctions Boston (BDS Boston), a local pro-Palestine group that has been campaigning against Elbit Systems for years. According to S, a member of BDS Boston who asked only to be identified by their first initial, the pickets “have a very strong emphasis on disruption” (Read more at Middle East Eye).