Keysight Technologies

Newcastle University invests £407,982.5 in Keysight Technologies[1]. Keysight Technologies has a military goods export license from the UK to Israel[2]. Keysight Technologies is an “electronics manufacturer that works very closely with UAV Tactical Systems Leicester, regularly making multiple deliveries per week to the site”[3]. "UAV Tactical Systems, is majority owned by Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, who often market their weapons as “battle-tested” after being used against the Palestinian people. Elbit supply 85% of Israel’s military drone fleet and land-based equipment"[4].

Cadence Design Systems

Newcastle University invests £1,358,155.4 in Cadence Design Systems[5]. Cadence Design Systems have a military goods export license from the UK to Israel[6]. Cadence is officially represented in Israel by CadCam [7][8]. CadCam is an authorised vendor to Israeli weapon manufacturers IAI, Elbit Systems, Rafael, Aeronautics and to the Israeli Ministry of Defense [9]. Cadence’s subsidiary CAE Systems have military contracts with Israel’s largest weapons producer Elbit Systems to provide M-346 training devices for the Israeli Air Force [10]. Cadence’s subsidiary CAE Systems supplies simulations software to the world’s largest weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin [11]. Lockheed Martin uses such software in the process of designing its fighter jets [12]. Cadence exhibits Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jet on its website [13]. Cadence’s subsidiary CAE Systems has been chosen by the Israeli weapon manufacturer Astronautics as its strategic (and preferred) military simulation provider [14]. Cadence’s systems are also deployed for the Israeli company Mellanox Technologies [15]. Mellanox is a collaborator with Israeli weapon manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems [16]. Cadence’s channel partner in Israel is EDAis; an electronics engineering firm serving the Israeli military sector [17]. One of the main clients of Cadence’s partner EDAis is Astronautics, an Israeli weapon manufacturer providing weapon systems to the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)[17][18]. Cadence’s CEO has stated: “there are a lot of brilliant ideas that come from the intelligence units of the Israeli army”[19].

Emerson Electric

Newcastle University invests £590,927.2 in Emerson Electric [20]. Emerson Electric produces the Emerlec EE-30 Naval Gun [21]. Emerson Electric is the manufacturer of the TOW Vehicle M901A1 armoured tank used during the invasion of Iraq [22]. Emerson Electric owns the Israeli company Spectronix Emerson [23]. Spectronix "serves Israeli defense forces, Israel Ministry of Defense, other armies, and other ministries of defense" [24]. Spectronix equips Israel’s Merkava tanks (and other Israeli tanks) with sensors [25]. The Merkava tank is Israel’s main asset for the ground offensive in Gaza [26]. A Forensic Architecture investigation concluded that Hind Rajab was likely killed from an Israeli Merkava tank [27]. Spectronix Emerson’s CEO "served as Captain in a Combat Parachuting unit in the IDF and worked for 8 years in the Prime Minister's office in Israel and abroad" [28].

What we know is more than that, but this is enough to prove that the university has consistently provided false information to the public by claiming: "the university does not invest in companies making armaments"[29]. The university cannot prove that claim, but no matter how long the university insists in misinforming it's stakeholders, the information we provide above proves otherwise.