The mobilization continues
After more than two weeks of fighting in the UIB, and with the devastation of Rafah underway that increases day by day the number of 40,000 Palestinians killed since last October, the Camp for Palestine have announced that they are moving the mobilization to streets and call a rally this Wednesday, June 5, to demand that the institutional complicity with the Zionist genocide in Palestine cease. The rally will be at 8 p.m., in Plaça de Cort de Palma.
Complaint of collaboration
They denounce the collaboration with Israel maintained by the institutions, either through the UIB’s monitored equidistance or with the purchase and sale of arms promoted by the Spanish Government. Let’s not forget that, although it has had the opportunity to go far beyond the abstract discourse that permeates the last statement of the Governing Council of the UIB, the Rectorate and the rector in person have not abandoned complicity and refused to recognize the genocide taking place in Palestine and to cut all institutional, economic and academic relations with Israel.
Repression and support
They report that the response has been repression, sending the Spanish Police to evict the peaceful protest instead of exploring all avenues of dialogue with an assembly that has waited two weeks to be able to meet him without success. They have preferred to shield themselves in the support of the deans, who have made a statement asking for sanctions for students in solidarity with Palestine, and to criminalize the protest with the inexplicable support of the union leaders of the STEI, CCOO, UGT, members of a Social Council of the UIB that has unanimously approved the ‘public condemnation’ of the insults that the protest has uttered to the rector and the UIB.
Insults and cover-up
The insults uttered to the rector Jaume Carot explain the last point they condemn with this rally. They denounce the minimization or outright cover-up by the Rectorate and the island’s governing authorities of the neo-Nazi threats and fascist physical aggression carried out with impunity by a student against the camp just over a week ago, in more than affirming that we will ask for all the water, toilet and security services that the Rectorate decides to install during the camp.
Support and disagreement
Activists for Palestine note that they are supported by many UIB professors who disagree with the deans’ statement. In addition, they emphasize that quite a few workers, affiliated members of the majority unions and linked to the different pro-Palestinian platforms, convey their total disagreement with the representatives of their unions to the Social Council of the UIB, Francesc Mellado (CCOO), Rafaela Sánchez ( UGT) and Gabriel Caldentey (STEI).