Three firms in college endowment fund are on a UN human rights agency ‘blacklist’ for doing business in illegal Israeli settlements
The grounds at Trinity College Dublin, including the Old Library and Book of Kells Experience, remain closed to the public on Sunday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill campus as well as a blockade at the entrance to the Book of Kells will remain indefinitely, until demands are met, according to students protesting on campus.
“The fact-finding mission set out a list of activities that had raised particular human rights concerns,” it read. Shapir Engineering and Energix Renewable Energies which are also among the TCD investments were found to be using natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes.The 13 companies form part of TCD’s “Climate Focused Fund” investment.
The agreements are in place through TCD’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies and the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies. They allow for student and staff mobility between both universities.For example, TCD is one of 11 partners alongside Tel Aviv University participating in the Expert medical research project, funded under the European Union’s Horizon programme, which concerns the use of mRNA-based nanomedicines for heart disease and cancer.
Mr Molnárfi said the union’s call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions means taking every possible step to begin the process of complete divestment from Israel wherever applicable, “which Trinity hasn’t done”.
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