The contract has triggered protests from NHS🔗 workers, privacy advocates, and human rights groups who warn that Israel’s war machine may gain indirect leverage over British public health systems.
In short: we’re allowing a company that helps facilitate war to access our most sensitive personal health records.
Palantir’s military connections and support for Israel
Palantir has developed systems like Gotham and other AI‑infused tools used for targeting and surveillance (The Guardian🔗) It has been criticised for enabling human rights abuses and profiling in Israeli-occupied territories (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre🔗)Doctor backlash & patient trust
NHS doctors and the British Medical Association (BMA) have raised strong objections. They warn that integrating such a system threatens trust, confidentiality, and could turn health records into a target for militarised access (The Guardian🔗).Government’s double standard
While politicians promise protection of civil liberties and respect for health privacy, they simultaneously hand over power and data access to tech firms aligned with military interests. This is worse than hypocrisy — it’s complicity in state violence.
What this means for UK taxpayers & citizens
Your taxes are funding the contract that enables this.
The Consolidated Fund🔗 is being used to subsidise a system that may serve military ends.
If you’re contributing via PAYE, corporation tax, VAT, or any route, you’re indirectly part of this.
By allowing this, the state normalises surveillance in the name of “efficiency,” making it easier to slip war‑adjacent tech into other institutions (police, immigration, border control).
Our stance: Lawful resistance is the only moral response
You don’t have to be complicit. At No Tax For War, we believe in using Taxation Trusts
to withhold tax — not to evade responsibility, but to refuse to fund systems that violate international justice and human rights. As with arms dealing, healthcare data systems have become weapons in their own right. We must act peacefully but firmly.
What you can do right now
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Join petitions to halt Palantir’s NHS access: https://nopalantir.org.uk/ | https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/don-t-let-palantir-near-our-nhs
Encourage NHS staff and citizens to speak out
Support privacy, volunteer tech audits, or monitor procurement
We are at a crossroads. The question isn’t just whether war is being funded — but whether we will allow war tech into our hospitals and personal lives. Don’t just care. Act.
