by bds @ ucl | 5 Nov 2025 | Blog
In 2016, UCL awarded an Honorary Fellowship to UCL alumnus Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. These are supposed to be awarded to individuals who reflect “the values and ethos of UCL”. Yet the Israeli military use Google’s cloud infrastructure and...
by bds @ ucl | 27 Oct 2025 | Blog
To UCL President & Provost Michael Spence, We are writing on behalf of the 937 UCL staff who have signed a pledge committing to the terms of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement to raise our urgent concerns about the potential of legal risk and...
by bds @ ucl | 21 Oct 2025 | Blog
Join BDS@UCL for a workshop to: Find out more about how UCL’s links with Google DeepMind risks making UCL complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Work with others to write letters to UCL managers calling for an end to UCL’s ties to Google DeepMind Workshops...
by bds @ ucl | 21 Oct 2025 | Blog
For the 2025-2026 academic year, BDS@UCL is launching a campaign to ask UCL to cut its ties with Google DeepMind, because Google DeepMind and its parent companies, Google and Alphabet, have become deeply complicit in aiding and abetting Israeli genocide, ethnic...
by bds @ ucl | 29 May 2025 | Complicity Reports
*NEW* Updated report! Read the full report (May 2025). Read the original report (June 2024).