By Angela Woolsey – Published January 13, 2026 at 10:15AM | Photo by Angela Woolsey

A group of protestors blocked traffic at Capital One’s headquarters in Tysons this morning (Tuesday).

Organizers called for the finance giant to drop a $90 million loan to the Arlington-based weapons company Elbit Systems, which they say supplies the Israeli military and federal immigration enforcement agencies.

”Capital One knows our demand. We’ve picketed at their bank branches. We’d protested outside the Capital One arena,” Eject Elbit organizer Kira said. “We were forced to escalate to this blockade because they’ve refused to respond or take action, and now the loan is up for renewal in April.”

Cassian, another organizer with the “Eject Elbit” campaign, says the group has also protested at Elbit’s U.S. headquarters in Arlington.

Capital One joined with several other creditors, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America and a subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal, to provide a $90 million loan to Elbit Systems in 2021, the Breach reported in 2023.

Based in Israel, Elbit is the top provider of weapons, drones and surveillance systems to the Israeli military, and it helped build a separation barrier walling off the West Bank, spurring calls for divestment that have led a number of European funders and even MIT to cut ties with the company.

Protestors objecting to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, particularly following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, have also vandalized and staged demonstrations at Elbit’s office building in Arlington.

Elbit also counts U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement among its clients, providing surveillance technology for operations in the U.S. and security equipment for the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Last fall, activists in Raleigh, North Carolina, successfully got the company to shut down a subsidiary’s facility there that produced surveillance equipment.

The protestors at Capital One Center wanted to particularly highlight Elbit’s work with federal immigration authorities in the wake of last week’s fatal shootings of Renee Good and Keith Porter by ICE agents in Minneapolis and Los Angeles, respectively. The agent who shot Porter was off-duty at the time.

“ICE murdered Keith Porter and Renee Good last week, and many hundreds more in their raids and detentions,” Cassian said. “This is what Capital One is getting behind.”

After demonstrations at Capital One bank branches around the country and Capital One Arena in D.C. received no response, “Eject Elbit” organizers decided the time had come “to escalate in their home on their turf,” Cassian told FFXnow.

Some protestors held a “Capital One: Stop Capitalizing on Genocide” banner at the corner of Route 123 and Capital One Tower Road, while others stood on ladders and laid out a 50-foot-long banner stating “Divest from Death” across the Capital One Tower and Capital One Drive intersection.

Cassian acknowledged that the protest likely created some inconvenience for Capital One employees and others during their morning commute, but the disruption was necessary to draw attention to their cause:

We thought it was important [to be disruptive] because Capital One doesn’t listen to people who just nicely knock on their door. They’re a huge corporation. They have no incentive to listen to us, but what they do care about is bad press, and so, we decided that if we did a big action and blocked their traffic, not only could we get press to show up and show people, show the world that Capital One is funding this evil company, but also, we could show hundreds and hundreds of employees that are walking to work and driving to work what the company is doing.

FFXnow has reached out to Capital One and Elbit Systems for comment.

Multiple Fairfax County police cars responded to the protest, monitoring participants and helping guide traffic.

The protest broke up after about an hour, with police handing organizers trespass citations indefinitely banning them from Capital One property.

The “Eject Elbit” campaign is encouraging people to boycott Capital One and cancel their credit card or bank account with the company if they have one.

“This is your chance to make a more ethical choice. You could cancel your card and account,” Cassian said. “If you go to ejectelbit.com, we have a whole guide for how to cancel your account and your card without ruining your credit, but we really want ya’ll to make a choice with us to boycott Capital One until they drop this loan.”