U.K. Tech Boycott Tour Features Head of U.S.-Sanctioned PFLP-Linked Addameer
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s U.K. tech boycott tour targets Palantir, Oracle and Cisco while featuring the head of Addameer, an NGO Treasury sanctioned as being affiliated with the PFLP
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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is launching a June public-meeting tour across the United Kingdom to pressure public institutions to sever contracts with major U.S. technology companies, including Palantir, Oracle and Cisco. On PSC’s current event page, Francis is listed only as a “Palestinian human rights lawyer,” although she serves as general director of the U.S.-sanctioned Palestinian NGO Addameer.
On June 10, 2025, the Treasury Department sanctioned Addameer, saying the group “has long supported and is affiliated with the PFLP.” Treasury also said that in spring 2022, Khaled Barakat coordinated with the PFLP to send funds to Addameer and arrange meetings between Addameer and Samidoun, which Treasury has described as a “sham charity” that serves as an international fundraiser for the PFLP. Israel previously designated Addameer as a terrorist organization in October 2021.
The designation places PSC’s campaign in sharper focus, as a British boycott tour targeting sensitive public-sector technology contracts is also platforming a speaker who leads a U.S.-sanctioned organization. The campaign is aimed not only at private companies, but at contracts involving the British government, local councils, universities and workplaces.
Francis’s Roles Across PFLP-Linked NGOs
Addameer is not the only Palestinian NGO in Francis’s record that Israeli authorities have designated as part of a PFLP-linked network. NGO Monitor has noted that Francis has been previously described as serving on the board of Defense for Children International-Palestine and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees. Both organizations were among the six Palestinian NGOs designated by Israel in October 2021 as part of what Israeli authorities described as a PFLP network operating under civil-society cover.
In a February 2019 interview with +972 Magazine, the outlet reported that “one of the achievements Francis is proudest of” was supporting Khader Adnan during his 2012 hunger strike. Adnan has been described as a prominent political leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
NGO Monitor has also cited a September 2014 PFLP article and Arabic-language media reporting that Francis participated in a PFLP-organized memorial event for Hashem Abu Maria, Sultan Al-Zaakik and Abd al-Hamid Breigheth. At the event, Francis reportedly referred to Hashem Abu Maria as “Hashem the human, Hashem the fighter.”
PSC Takes Aim at Britain’s Tech Contracts
PSC’s event page says the “Delete Genocide Tech” campaign will launch in June with public meetings in Liverpool, Cardiff and London. The group says the campaign is intended to “force” what it calls “complicit tech companies” out of “the government, local councils, universities and workplaces.”
The campaign names Palantir, Oracle and Cisco Systems, alleging that the companies provide Israel with IT infrastructure or software while also holding contracts in Britain. A Cardiff ticket page for the June 16 meeting at the Temple of Peace uses similar language, saying the campaign seeks to “sever” what it calls “complicit contracts.”
PSC’s campaign targets companies with major British public-sector contracts. NHS England says a consortium led by Palantir Technologies UK won the Federated Data Platform contract in November 2023. The contract formally began in March 2024 and could run until March 2031 if all extension options are used.
Palantir also supplies the U.K. Ministry of Defence. In February, Defence Minister Luke Pollard told Parliament that Palantir is a “strategic supplier” to the MOD, providing data integration, analytics and AI platforms for operational planning and decision-making. MPs also discussed a December 2025 Palantir MOD contract worth £240 million.
Oracle, another company named by PSC, said in January that it had signed a new cloud agreement with the U.K. Ministry of Defence to help move legacy systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and support the ministry’s adoption of new AI capabilities.
Palantir’s Public-Interest Work
Palantir is best known for high-stakes government work, but its technology is also used in health care, humanitarian response and other public-interest settings. In Britain, NHS England says the Federated Data Platform, awarded to a consortium led by Palantir after a competitive procurement process, is intended to connect vital health information across the NHS so staff can deliver better care and work more efficiently.
In Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy has said Palantir’s technology is being used to help automate and prioritize humanitarian demining, a life-saving task in a country heavily contaminated by land mines and unexploded ordnance.
The World Food Programme has also described Palantir as a partner in strengthening data-informed decision-making for humanitarian operations. Those examples show why public institutions often view Palantir not as a generic software vendor, but as infrastructure for high-stakes data coordination.