Students interrupt a UIB event to denounce ties with Israeli companies.

The 'Carot, enough complicity' campaign ensures that the institution maintains agreements with companies with a presence in Israel, including Palma Aquàrium, owned by Coral World.

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PalmRepresentatives of the "Carot, Enough Complicity" campaign, made up of students and workers, spoke this Wednesday during the presentation of EMPRENDAY on the UIB campus. During the event, they interrupted the international welcome given by the rector, Jaume Carot, to demand that the university comply with what was approved by the UIB Governing Council in May of last year: not to establish relations with Israeli companies or entities that participate in illegal employment and colonization or violate UN resolutions.

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According to campaign spokespersons, the rector's office tried to prevent them from reading the manifesto. Once the reading was over, they left, and sources from the rector's office, they say, told them that "they can't do anything." The activists consider this position "hypocritical" and point out that other universities in the Spanish state, such as the UPV/EHU, have taken "more forceful" measures to cut ties with Israeli companies and entities involved in employment in the West Bank.

€250,000 in Banco Santander

The campaign claims that the UIB maintains agreements with companies with a presence in Israel, including Palma Aquàrium, owned by Coral World and part of the Israeli conglomerate Kahn Group, as well as REMAX, which sells properties in the West Bank. They also criticize the renewal of a €250,000 financing agreement with Banco Santander, an entity linked to the arms industry implicated in the conflict in Palestine. Other companies such as HP and CAT have also been present at the university.

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The spokespersons reiterated that they will demand that the rectorate fulfill the commitments made and sever all relations with entities linked to Zionism and the arms industry. They also emphasized that the university has not yet explicitly condemned the acts that the campaign calls genocide, as recognized by UN resolutions.