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Exclusive: Gillian Anderson joins Intel and Siemens and withdraws from Web Summit

A number of other companies are reviewing their relationship with the tech conference as Sex Education star Gillian Anderson pulls out

Sex Education star Gillian Anderson (right) with co-star Asa Butterfield

Intel and Siemens have both confirmed they have withdrawn from this year’s Web Summit conference in Lisbon following recent comments made by its founder and chief executive Paddy Cosgrave regarding Israel.

The technology companies are among a number Web Summit’s previous partners which have been reviewing their relationship with the conference following a controversial tweet last weekend in which Cosgrave was critical of Israel’s response to the deadly recent attack by Hamas in which 1,400 ...