Jorge Campos now attacks the UIB and calls it a "swamp where separatist intolerance wallows".

PalmaThe Vox deputy in Congress, Jorge Campos, has intensified the controversy generated by his criticism of the participation of a student with a hijab in the graduation ceremony of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). After the academic institution defended the student - who has a brilliant curriculum -, Campos has lashed out at the university's management team and has even stated that the UIB's "separatist Catalanism" is an "entry point to Islamization".

In a message posted on social media, the deputy assures that the university "has been bothered" because he considered it "incorrect for a Muslim woman with an Islamic veil to represent the students of the Balearic Islands". Campos states that his criticism "was not a pointing out of any student", but rather that, according to him, "the Islamic veil represents the submission of women" and is "a symbol incompatible with the dignity of women and with the democratic values that a public university should defend".

Furthermore, he accuses the UIB of having become "the swamp where separatist intolerance wallows", assures that acts "in defense of terrorist groups like ETA or Hamas" are permitted there and denounces an alleged persecution of "linguistic freedom".

Campos has also publicly offered to hold a debate at the UIB with any member of the Governing Council on issues such as "the dignity, equality of people, diversity, languages, origins, sensitivities and convictions". Likewise, he warns that, if he does not receive a response, he will interpret it as "a further demonstration that the separatist Catalanism of the UIB is also a gateway to Islamization".

The controversy originated after Campos published a photograph of Khaoula Ikkene, a graduate in Computer Engineering, who spoke during the graduation ceremony on behalf of the 1,375 students who have finished their degree studies at the UIB this year. In the message, the deputy questioned that she was one of those in charge of addressing the graduates because she wore a hijab.

The University of the Balearic Islands defended its student and recalled that the representation of graduates responds exclusively to academic and institutional criteria, with no connection to religious beliefs or the origin of individuals. In this regard, lawyer Aina Díaz, who studied Law at the UIB with Jorge Campos and reproached him for never having been entrusted with the task of giving the graduation speech, expressed herself, implying that his academic record was not among the best of the promotion. "Jorge, this UIB is the same one in which we studied Law together. Neither then nor now would they have chosen you to give the graduation speech. And that you didn't wear a veil and you always wore a Spanish bracelet," the jurist pointed out via X.

Another of the recognitions was given by IES Mossèn Alcover of Manacor, who has also expressed themselves in this regard, as Ikkene is also an alumna and the center has recognized her as a student who has represented "on her own academic merits, the values that are part of our educational project", at the same time as they congratulated her through their Instagram profile.