Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

"It is incredibly disappointing to know that in the university I’ve been attending for years that the research of peers is potentially being used to promote and assist in a genocide". Those are the words of UCC student Ainsley-Kay Rucker after the UCC boycott divestment sanctions group discovered links between UCC's Tyndall Institute and the Israeli war machine. Tyndall is part of the PHORMIC Horizon Europe project. This is a consortium of eight partners working to develop programmable photonic chips. The Israeli partner is Mellanox Technologies. Its parent company, NVIDIA, makes chips that are used in the Lanius military drone, which is produced by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems and used in Gaza. Will the Taoiseach join me in calling on UCC and all Irish universities to sever their links with companies that are part of the Israeli war machine or which profit from Israel's bloody occupation?

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