Barclays Bank has been hit with a formal complaint alleging anti-Semitism after a customer claimed staff at its Leicester business team unfairly froze his account because of his Israeli residency.
In a letter addressed directly to group chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan, journalist Martin Blackham accused the bank of discriminating against him on the basis of his nationality and location.
Blackham, who said he is a member of His Majesty’s press corps currently covering the war in Israel, claimed that his Barclays account had been blocked from normal use after the system flagged a request for further details which he was unable to update online.
“As the account details show that I am based in Israel this is clearly a case of anti-Semitism by the Barclays Business Team management in Leicester,” Blackham wrote in his complaint.
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