Lloyds Banking Group

Ethical Consumer assessment found Lloyds Banking Group among UK banks with incomplete weapons financing policies, and noted its 2024 shareholder meeting was disrupted by Palestine activists.

Lloyds Bank was identified as one of the two largest overall providers of loans to arms companies totalling €4.1 billion, including finance to General Dynamics which exports to Israel-linked clients.

An investigation by Boycott Banks for Palestine found that Al-Khair Foundation splits its banking between Lloyds and HSBC, with combined £7 million cash on hand, labelling Lloyds a 'genocide bank.'

Official Employment Tribunal judgment in the case of two Lloyds employees sanctioned for posting pro-Palestine BDS advocacy messages on an internal communications platform in 2021.

Two women faced disciplinary action in 2021 after posting messages calling for bank to divest from companies linked to alleged Israeli war crimes

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre documented the Lloyds employment tribunal case involving two Muslim women disciplined for advocating divestment from companies linked to alleged Israeli war crimes.

PAX/Profundo June 2024 report identified European financial institutions investing billions in six arms producers — including Boeing, General Dynamics, and Rolls-Royce — that have sold weapons to Israel.

Campaign group Tipping Point disrupted Lloyds' 2024 AGM in Glasgow, demanding the bank divest from fossil fuel companies and firms 'complicit in Israeli genocide and occupation.'

A 2017 War on Want report identified Lloyds Bank among UK financial institutions funding Israeli arms firms and investing in companies supplying military equipment and technology to Israel.

Two Lloyds Bank employees were penalized for their Palestine support. Now they’re suing the bank for discrimination.