Pro-Palestinian group protests outside Barclays in Loop [Video]

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) – About a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested after a demonstration outside a building in the Loop this morning.

They blocked two entrances to the Barclays building on LaSalle and Adams for about two hours during the morning rush.

Members of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Anti-War Committee Chicago and others are calling on the investment bank to divest itself from the war in Gaza.

Chicago Police officers dressed in camo were seen separating protestors who had chained themselves together. It was preventing people from getting in.

The pro-Palestinian groups accuse Barclays of financially supporting the war in Gaza by holding shares in defense companies supplying Israel. Barclays says that’s a misstatement. The company acknowledges it provides financial services to those companies but says it is not a shareholder or investor in them.

The investment bank says it would end relationships with businesses shown to make cluster bombs or components.

An Israeli strike on a …