by bds @ ucl | 17 Nov 2025 | Blog
On Friday 14 Nov, UCL staff, students and alumni gathered at UCL’s Donor Wall where UCL celebrates @googledeepmind as a £1m+ donor. GDM develops and supplies technology for Google’s £1.2b AI and cloud computing deal with the Israeli military and...
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...
