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 | 24 May 2025 | Blog
Join us for a critical discussion with a guest academic speaker 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...
by bds @ ucl | 19 Mar 2025 | Blog
Yesterday, a packed room of UCL staff and students were privileged to hear Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and renowned international lawyer, deliver a powerful talk on the topic of genocide against Palestinians and...
