Windows at 10 bank branches in Brooklyn and Queens were smashed early yesterday in an apparent protest against the banks’ alleged compliance with the Arab boycott of Israel. A man called a news agency later and said that a group to which he belonged. Save Our Israel Land (SOIL) had committed the-act because the banks were “collaborating with the Arabs.”
The banks were branches of Chase Manhattan Bank. First National City Bank-Chemical Bank and Bankers Trust who were among 25 banks cited last week by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith as participating in the Arab boycott. Meanwhile, a spokesman for a group of SOIL members who were picketing Chase Manhattan Sunday denied the group had broken windows at the 10 banks earlier in the day but said they “applauded” the action.
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