The Sónar competition is disconnected from “any action” of KKR and sympathizes with the Palestinian individuals | Culture | EUROtoday

The Sónar Festival introduced Monday that it’s disconnected from “any action” of KKR, the funding fund with curiosity in Palestine to which it belongs. In a press release he has printed on his Instagram account, the competition introduced in the midst of the afternoon that he had no “interference” or “control” on the investments or selections of the fund and, after the strain acquired in latest days, he needed to explicitly present his “solidarity with the Palestinian civilian population trapped in the humanitarian catastrophe that is lived in Gaza”.

The announcement got here after just a few days through which the social strain in opposition to the KKR funding fund and its relationship with different festivals that additionally controls the group, such because the Rock winery, Arenal Sound or FIB. The American fund supervisor, based in 1976, has been very energetic in sectors reminiscent of meals or vitality and textile sector. The Kohlberg Kravis Roberts fund, which has Supersruct Entertainment since final summer season -the group that Sónar acquired in 2018 -, invests in Israeli cybersecurity companies and has the bulk property of the media conglomerate that gives properties in Palestinian territories.

Last week, 70 DJ’s and musicians of the worldwide and nationwide scene – amongst them Kode9, Lolo & Sosaku or Sunny Graves – urged the group of Sónar to satisfy the 4 rules of the BDS motion of boycott, divestments and sanctions in opposition to Israel. On Saturday, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, mentioned that the KKR fund “is not welcome” in Spain and admitted that he was involved along with his “penetration” at Spanish music festivals for his relationship with the enlargement of the “illegal settlements” in Palestine. And this Monday, it was the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who has requested the exclusion of Israel from worldwide cultural occasions, reminiscent of Eurovision.

The Sónar Festival assertion has been made public the identical day that one of many administrators of the competition, Enric Palau, has met with a few of the artists who collaborate with the BDS motion. According to sources that collaborate with BDS, the competition’s textual content has been printed earlier than even the tip of the assembly. From the BDS motion, the competition’s announcement is taken into account “insufficient”, because it solely meets one of many 4 necessities they demanded, to “distance themselves from the complicit investments of KKR”. The different three are, on this order, “adopt an ethical program with the associated brands”, “respect the BDS guidelines” and “interact with artists in all the above.”

“Pacbi (Palestinian campaign for academic and cultural boycott of Israel) thanks to sound publicly distancing from KKR complicit investments as a first necessary step to address its involuntary complicity, but Sónar has failed by not mentioning its own complicity with other associates with priority in BDS such as Coca Cola or McDonald’s McFlry,” mentioned BDS from His tales on his Instagram account.