On August 2, Cambridge police arrested three demonstrators and deployed pepper spray on several during a protest in front of a Capital One Bank branch on JFK Street in Harvard Square.

The demonstrators were there to protest the bank’s loans to Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms manufacturer that has produced cluster munitions, lethal drones and white phosphorus munitions used by the Israeli military against civilian populations.

Last Sunday, a larger crowd of several hundred demonstrators were back at the Capital One branch with a demonstration that shut down traffic in Harvard Square.

“It’s necessary that people continue mobilizing, showing that the streets are still alive because resistance to U.S. involvement in the genocide, particularly when American companies like Boston Consulting Gr

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