University of Strathclyde
Complicit investments: £7,573,773
Based on FOI requests
Direct Investments
| Complicit company | Investment value (£) |
|---|---|
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Alphabet Inc Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc, provides cloud computing services and other technologies to the Israeli military. Since 2021, Google Cloud Platform has co-developed the main cloud infrastructure platform for the Israeli state, dubbed ‘Project Nimbus’.
More information here.
|
£638,923 |
|
Amazon Investigate reports that Amazon, alongside Google, is the main provider of cloud infrastructure for the Israeli government and military, dubbed Project Nimbus. |
£560,839 |
|
BAE Systems BAE Systems is a large British arms producer. As reported by Investigate, it manufactures weapons and military technology used by Israel in its militarised attacks on Palestinians. |
£321,474 |
|
BAE Systems BAE Systems is a large British arms producer. As reported by Investigate, it manufactures weapons and military technology used by Israel in its militarised attacks on Palestinians. |
£342,333 |
|
Barclays Barclays is a British multinational bank and financial services company. According to research released by PSC, War on Want and Campaign Against Arms Trade, it holds over £1bn in shares in, and provides financial services to, nine companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology, used in its militarised violence against Palestinians. |
£244,205 |
|
Barclays Barclays is a British multinational bank and financial services company. According to research released by PSC, War on Want and Campaign Against Arms Trade, it holds over £1bn in shares in, and provides financial services to, nine companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology, used in its militarised violence against Palestinians. |
£259,848 |
|
FANUC FANUC is a Japanese industrial robot manufacturer. Its robots are used by Israeli weapons manufacturers, including Elbit Systems. More information here. |
£120,711 |
|
Siemens According to research group Corporate Occupation “Traffic control systems of the company are installed by its Israeli representative, Orad Group, on apartheid roads (roads on which only Israelis are allowed to travel).” In addition Siemens Israel is participating in the electrification of the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem high-speed train (A1), which is currently under construction. The A1 train route crosses the Green Line into the occupied Palestinian West Bank in two areas. The BDS movement has called for a boycott of Siemens for its role constructing the EuroAsia Interconnector, a submarine electricity cable from Israel via Cyprus to Greece, that will connect apartheid Israel’s electricity grid with that of the EU and enable it to export electricity produced from fossil gas to Europe, |
£131,998 |
|
Siemens According to research group Corporate Occupation “Traffic control systems of the company are installed by its Israeli representative, Orad Group, on apartheid roads (roads on which only Israelis are allowed to travel).” In addition Siemens Israel is participating in the electrification of the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem high-speed train (A1), which is currently under construction. The A1 train route crosses the Green Line into the occupied Palestinian West Bank in two areas. The BDS movement has called for a boycott of Siemens for its role constructing the EuroAsia Interconnector, a submarine electricity cable from Israel via Cyprus to Greece, that will connect apartheid Israel’s electricity grid with that of the EU and enable it to export electricity produced from fossil gas to Europe, |
£258,044 |
Indirect Investments
| Investment fund/tracker | Complicit company | Investment value (£) |
|---|---|---|
| Newton Investment Management |
Alphabet Inc Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc, provides cloud computing services and other technologies to the Israeli military. Since 2021, Google Cloud Platform has co-developed the main cloud infrastructure platform for the Israeli state, dubbed ‘Project Nimbus’.
More information here.
|
£638,924 |
| Newton Investment Management |
Amazon Investigate reports that Amazon, alongside Google, is the main provider of cloud infrastructure for the Israeli government and military, dubbed Project Nimbus. |
£560,839 |
| Newton Investment Management |
BAE Systems BAE Systems is a large British arms producer. As reported by Investigate, it manufactures weapons and military technology used by Israel in its militarised attacks on Palestinians. |
£825,771 |
| Hunter Endowment |
BAE Systems BAE Systems is a large British arms producer. As reported by Investigate, it manufactures weapons and military technology used by Israel in its militarised attacks on Palestinians. |
£161,964 |
| Newton Investment Management, Artemis UK Select G, and others |
Barclays Barclays is a British multinational bank and financial services company. According to research released by PSC, War on Want and Campaign Against Arms Trade, it holds over £1bn in shares in, and provides financial services to, nine companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology, used in its militarised violence against Palestinians. |
£710,204 |
| Hunter Endowment |
Barclays Barclays is a British multinational bank and financial services company. According to research released by PSC, War on Want and Campaign Against Arms Trade, it holds over £1bn in shares in, and provides financial services to, nine companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology, used in its militarised violence against Palestinians. |
£104,283 |
| TB Evenlode Income D Inc |
Cisco Systems Cisco is an US-based public company that designs and sells a broad range of technologies, with a wide range of involvement in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, as outlined by Investigate, a project by the American Friends Service Committee. |
£86,764 |
| Newton Investment Management |
FANUC FANUC is a Japanese industrial robot manufacturer. Its robots are used by Israeli weapons manufacturers, including Elbit Systems. More information here. |
£173,533 |
| Hunter Endowment |
FANUC FANUC is a Japanese industrial robot manufacturer. Its robots are used by Israeli weapons manufacturers, including Elbit Systems. More information here. |
£52,822 |
| Liontrust Monthly Income |
HSBC HSBC is a large British bank. Research by War on Want in 2017 found that HSBC invests over £830million in, and provides financial services worth up to £19billion for, companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology used in its militarised attacks on Palestinians. |
£75,735 |
| Hunter Endowment |
HSBC HSBC is a large British bank. Research by War on Want in 2017 found that HSBC invests over £830million in, and provides financial services worth up to £19billion for, companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology used in its militarised attacks on Palestinians. |
£81,498 |
| Artemis UK Select G |
Rolls Royce Rolls-Royce is a British manufacturer that produces military aircraft engines, naval engines and cores for nuclear submarines. It is still the world’s 17th largest Arms trade. It is a supplier of the US F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme. F-35 fighter jets have been used on numerous occasions in Israel’s attacks on the besieged the Gaza Strip, including in May 2021. In 2014, the year of Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, which killed over 2,200 civilians, nearly a quarter of them children, Rolls-Royce was granted export licenses for engines for military aircrafts to Israel. |
£87,638 |
| Newton Investment Management |
Siemens According to research group Corporate Occupation “Traffic control systems of the company are installed by its Israeli representative, Orad Group, on apartheid roads (roads on which only Israelis are allowed to travel).” In addition Siemens Israel is participating in the electrification of the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem high-speed train (A1), which is currently under construction. The A1 train route crosses the Green Line into the occupied Palestinian West Bank in two areas. The BDS movement has called for a boycott of Siemens for its role constructing the EuroAsia Interconnector, a submarine electricity cable from Israel via Cyprus to Greece, that will connect apartheid Israel’s electricity grid with that of the EU and enable it to export electricity produced from fossil gas to Europe, |
£446,809 |
| Hunter Endowment |
Siemens According to research group Corporate Occupation “Traffic control systems of the company are installed by its Israeli representative, Orad Group, on apartheid roads (roads on which only Israelis are allowed to travel).” In addition Siemens Israel is participating in the electrification of the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem high-speed train (A1), which is currently under construction. The A1 train route crosses the Green Line into the occupied Palestinian West Bank in two areas. The BDS movement has called for a boycott of Siemens for its role constructing the EuroAsia Interconnector, a submarine electricity cable from Israel via Cyprus to Greece, that will connect apartheid Israel’s electricity grid with that of the EU and enable it to export electricity produced from fossil gas to Europe, |
£56,767 |
| TB Evenlode Income D Inc |
Smiths Group Smiths Group is a British large and technology arms company. From 2008 to 2021 it applied to the British government for 32 arms export licenses to Israel. It has supplied a number of components to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II programme. The F-35 Lightning II was first used by Israel in 2018, and has been used in Israel’s May 2021 aerial bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip. |
£104,145 |
| Newton Investment Management |
Sony Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation. Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment and financial services. During a June 2018 field tour in the Old City of Jerusalem, Who Profits documented the use of Sony cameras as part of Israel’s surveillance system in the occupied area. At least six Sony cameras were installed at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. As part of its military occupation, Israel maintains a regime of intense surveillance against Palestinians in Jerusalem. |
£527,702 |