Drop Citibank from your career fairs

In just under a month’s time, the two universities here - Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Ulster - will hold their annual careers fairs. And we have just found out that Citibank is likely to be there.

Citibank should play no role in our publicly-funded universities. Not only are they the third biggest fossil fuel funder in the world, they are also the largest foreign bank in Israel and help secure funding and arms for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Citibank causes harm and destruction by financing fossil fuel companies whose greed is causing extreme weather, rising sea levels, extinction of species across the globe. And not only that, Citibank was the lead bank in arranging the purchase of F-35 fighter jets by Israel that they are now using to drop 2000lb bombs on Gaza.

We, the undersigned, call on Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University to drop Citibank from all upcoming and future career fairs.