Join us for a critical discussion with Dr. Samer Abdelnour, University of Edinburgh, and Vikram, a former Google employee and organizer with No Tech for Apartheid, to examine the deep entanglement between UCL and Google and their role in supporting the Israeli war machine. We will release an updated complicity report on UCL and Google and strategize ways to disrupt our institution’s support for this violence and mobilize for accountability, transparency and ethical tech on campus.
As previous research from the BDS@UCL group has shown, UCL maintains a deep and long-standing relationship with Google subsidiary DeepMind—funding scholarships, faculty positions, and joint research—while also holding nearly £5 million in investments in its parent company, Alphabet. Through its $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract, Google provides cloud and AI services to the Israeli military and government, directly enabling surveillance, targeting, and military operations that enable apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories and genocide in Gaza.