By the BNY Funds Genocide Campaign The Bank of New York and Bank Leumi were intentionally established to be the financial apparatus that facilitated the White supremacist settler colonial projects of the United States and Israel, respectively. On its own website, Bank Leumi describes that it was established to fulfill the need for “a financial … Bank Leumi: An Instrument of Settler Colonialism and Genocide
For Immediate Release Chicago, IL— On Thursday, August 7, 2025, a federal judge dismissed a frivolous SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) lawsuit against several civil and human rights advocates who protested for an end to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed the case in September 2024 in … VICTORY: Pro-Palestine Advocates Defeat Baseless Lawsuit Targeting Right to Protest in Chicago
By BNY Mellon Campaign This month, the United States of America celebrated its 249th anniversary, marking 249 years of ongoing genocide. From the beginning, the United States has been defined as a settler-colonial project–a type of “colonization in which outsiders come to the land inhabited by Indigenous peoples and claim it as their own.” The … The Bank of NY Has Backed Genocide for Centuries