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Anthropic

AI & Data 89 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-08-27
BDS-1000 Score 478 /1000 C Tier C - High

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Key Findings

  • Digital: Claude is available in both Israel and Palestine; AWS made Amazon Bedrock available in its Israel (Tel Aviv) Region, and CloudZone became an authorized Israeli reseller of Claude through Bedrock. These facts establish market and distribution access, not an Anthropic-owned Israeli data centre or a verified Israeli military deployment.1234
  • Economic: The record identifies Israeli market usage, a January 2025 Israeli Ministry of Finance procurement entry for “Anthropic – Claude AI in AWS cloud,” reported investments by Clal and Migdal, and an authorized reseller relationship with Tel Aviv-headquartered CloudZone.52678
  • Settlements / Political: CloudZone belongs to Matrix IT, which appears in OHCHR settlement-business database updates and is reported by Who Profits and AFSC to have settlement-linked operations. Neither the databases nor those profiles name Anthropic or Claude, and no reviewed source establishes Claude use in a settlement-linked Matrix contract.910111213
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of an Anthropic contract with the IDF or Israeli Ministry of Defense, an Israeli tactical Claude variant, a verified Claude deployment in Israeli targeting or surveillance, or Anthropic manufacture of weapons or military hardware.141516171819

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameAnthropic PBC
JurisdictionDelaware, United States; public benefit corporation
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
SectorArtificial intelligence software and services
OwnershipPrivately held. The record identifies substantial non-controlling investments by Amazon and a minority, non-voting Google interest; neither is established as Anthropic’s parent or controlling shareholder.2021
Key Executives / GovernanceDario Amodei, CEO and co-founder; Daniela Amodei, president and co-founder. Published directors include Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Reed Hastings, Chris Liddell, and Vas Narasimhan. The Long-Term Benefit Trust holds special governance rights.2223
Israeli-Nexus SummaryClaude is available in Israel through cloud channels and an authorized Matrix-owned reseller; the record also shows Israeli usage, one Ministry of Finance procurement line, and reported Israeli institutional investment, but no verified direct Israeli military contract or deployment.

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Anthropic’s documented Israel/Palestine nexus is principally commercial and digital. Claude is available in both Israel and Palestine, is distributed through global cloud platforms, and can be accessed through AWS infrastructure available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. In March 2026, CloudZone, a Tel Aviv-headquartered company in the Matrix IT group, became an authorized reseller of Claude through Amazon Bedrock, providing procurement, billing, implementation, and support. These arrangements establish availability and a local distribution channel; they do not establish an Anthropic-owned Israeli infrastructure footprint.1234

The strongest economic evidence consists of observed Israeli use, an Israeli Ministry of Finance procurement entry, reported investment by Israeli financial institutions, and the CloudZone reseller relationship. A February 2025 Ministry of Finance publication contains a January entry described as “Anthropic – Claude AI in AWS cloud” with 59,000.00 in the amount column, but does not identify the workload, duration, ultimate users beyond the ministry, or allocation of proceeds among Anthropic, AWS, and intermediaries.6 CTech reported cumulative investments of $185 million by Clal and $125 million by Migdal; the reviewed record did not establish board rights, control, or ownership percentages arising from those investments.78

The principal settlement-related issue is indirect and must remain so. CloudZone is part of Matrix IT. Matrix appears in the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database updates, and civil-society profiles report Matrix operations and services in settlements and occupied locations. Anthropic and Claude are not named in those OHCHR entries or profiles, the reseller agreement postdates the assessment periods behind the database listings, and no source establishes that Claude was sold, implemented, or used through a settlement operation.2910111213

The military record does not support direct Israeli attribution. Anthropic has substantial, explicit U.S. national-security business, including Claude Gov, a $200 million-ceiling U.S. Department of Defense agreement, and classified integration with Palantir. Reporting on a 2026 joint U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran documents U.S. use of Claude-enabled Palantir Maven workflows, but states that Israeli receipt of target lists or direct Israeli use of Claude was unclear. No public evidence identified of an Anthropic contract with the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, police, prison services, or intelligence agencies, or of Claude in an Israeli targeting, surveillance, weapons, or settlement system.141516171819

On the fixed, human-vetted V4 record, Digital is the maximum domain at 5.27, followed by Economic at 3.69, Political at 3.30, and Military at 0.00. The resulting BRS is 478, Tier C (High). That result reflects documented digital distribution, commercial exposure, and indirect settlement-linked counterparty proximity while preserving the absence of verified direct Israeli military contracting or deployment.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
July 2023Dario Amodei confirmed to a U.S. Senate hearing that Google was an Anthropic investor and did not control an Anthropic board seat; the current percentage was not established in the reviewed primary materials.24
14 March 2024Google Cloud announced Claude 3 availability on Vertex AI.25
June 2024Anthropic expanded U.S. government access to Claude, including legally authorized foreign-intelligence analysis; the announcement was not Israel-specific.26
7 November 2024Anthropic, Palantir, and AWS announced Claude availability for U.S. intelligence and defence agencies on classified systems; the agreement did not expressly extend to Palantir’s Israeli customers.14
January 2025An Israeli Ministry of Finance procurement entry recorded “Anthropic – Claude AI in AWS cloud” and 59,000.00, without identifying a military end user or detailed workload.6
6 June 2025Anthropic announced Claude Gov for U.S. national-security customers only.16
July 2025Anthropic announced a two-year U.S. Department of Defense agreement with a $200 million ceiling for frontier-AI prototypes and classified defence workflows.15
September 2025Anthropic’s Economic Index reported Israel at 1.1% of observed global Claude.ai usage and assigned it an AI Usage Index of 7.0; the measure was not revenue.5
29 September 2025AWS announced Amazon Bedrock availability in its Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.3
September 2025–2026CTech reported investment in Anthropic by Clal and later cumulative investments of $185 million by Clal and $125 million by Migdal.78
March 2026CloudZone’s authorization as a Claude reseller through Amazon Bedrock was publicly reported.227
March 2026Reporting described Claude-enabled Palantir Maven use by the U.S. military during a joint U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran; direct Israeli use and sharing of target lists remained unclear.171819
13 August 2026Bloomberg Law reported talks for Anthropic to acquire Israeli-founded Decart for approximately $6 billion; negotiations were not final and could fail, so Decart was not treated as an Anthropic subsidiary.28

Corporate Overview

Anthropic is a privately held Delaware public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its published purpose concerns the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI. The Long-Term Benefit Trust holds a special class of shares with phased authority to appoint and remove directors. Reviewed regulatory records characterize Google’s interest as minority and non-voting and do not establish material influence; Amazon’s disclosed investment is likewise non-controlling and subject to an ownership cap.22202123

The audits identified no Anthropic-incorporated Israeli subsidiary, office, engineering centre, data centre, accelerator, payroll entity, or other owned operational base. Israel is covered from Anthropic’s London-based EMEA organization, and Israel and Palestine appear on the same supported-country list.1429

The relevant commercial chain is Anthropic → Claude on Amazon Bedrock → CloudZone → customers in Israel. CloudZone is a Matrix IT group company, not an Anthropic subsidiary or franchise. It provides local procurement, consolidated billing, implementation, and support. Matrix reports that CloudZone serves enterprises and public-sector customers, while other Matrix units serve the IDF, Ministry of Defense, and defence industries. The reviewed evidence does not connect Claude to a Matrix defence deployment or identify an IDF or Ministry of Defense purchase through CloudZone.29

Matrix’s settlement-related record is also separate from Anthropic’s corporate structure. OHCHR and civil-society sources document Matrix-group activity, but neither establish ownership by Anthropic nor identify Claude as the technology used in the cited settlement locations or contracts.10111213

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No direct Israeli military mechanism was verified. Anthropic’s documented defence activity is U.S.-focused: its Palantir/AWS arrangement makes Claude available to U.S. intelligence and defence agencies, Claude Gov is restricted to U.S. national-security customers, and its two-year Department of Defense agreement has a $200 million ceiling and includes classified workflows and prototypes fine-tuned on DoD data.141516

The nearest operational nexus is reporting on Palantir’s Maven system during a 2026 joint U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran. The Washington Post reported that Claude-powered Maven suggested and prioritized Iranian targets, while Reuters reporting described Claude-based prompts and workflows in intelligence analysis and weapons targeting. However, the Washington Post said it was unclear whether target lists were shared with Israel, and CBS likewise reported that direct Israeli military use of Claude was unclear.171819

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Anthropic’s strongest defence is that the available record identifies U.S., not Israeli, contracting and use. No contract, tender, deployment record, export licence, military end-user certificate, or judicial proceeding was identified for Claude supply to an Israeli security body. Claude Gov is publicly limited to U.S. customers, and the Palantir/AWS announcement concerned U.S. agencies. The joint-campaign reporting cannot be converted into evidence of Israeli possession or use where the reporting itself leaves that question unresolved.1415161719

Anthropic is a software company, not a manufacturer of munitions, vehicles, aircraft, drones, radar, guidance systems, or physical weapons. No Anthropic-assigned patent was identified for targeting, fire control, guidance, or autonomous weapons.30 Matrix’s defence capabilities and historic programme work cannot be transitively attributed to Anthropic merely because another Matrix unit later became a Claude reseller.29

Named Entities and Evidence Map

EntityDocumented relationshipEvidence limit
U.S. Department of DefenseDirect Anthropic agreement for classified and defence workflows.15U.S. relationship; no Israeli end user identified.
PalantirClaude integration for U.S. classified systems; Maven reportedly used Claude during the Iran campaign.141718Palantir’s separate Israeli work does not prove Anthropic supplied Israel.
CloudZone / Matrix ITAuthorized Israeli reseller within a group that serves Israeli defence customers.29No Claude deployment in a Matrix defence project identified.
IDF / Israeli Ministry of DefenseMatrix customer relationships are documented.9No direct Anthropic contract or verified Claude purchase identified.

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Claude is available to users in Israel and Palestine, is distributed through Google Cloud Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock, and became locally procurable through CloudZone. AWS made Bedrock available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region and lists Anthropic models in its regional availability materials. This creates a substantive digital distribution and cloud-access nexus.12342531

Anthropic’s cloud relationships intersect with vendors that have separate Israeli public-sector or defence records. Palantir has acknowledged Israeli defence and intelligence-related work, while AWS and Google are cloud infrastructure partners.3233 Anthropic also supplies Claude through Vertex AI to Palo Alto Networks, an Israeli-founded cybersecurity company, for internal developer-productivity workflows.34

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Availability is not deployment. The reviewed sources do not establish that Anthropic operates or leases an Israeli data centre, participates in Project Nimbus, provides sovereign-cloud services to Israeli state institutions, or supplied AI to Israeli military, intelligence, police, surveillance, biometric, or targeting systems. AWS states that Bedrock is AWS-managed infrastructure; a regional listing does not establish that every Israel-originating request is processed in Israel.3431

The audits also found no verified relationship in which Anthropic purchases Israeli-origin facial-recognition, biometric, predictive-policing, workforce-surveillance, offensive-cyber, or zero-day tools. Its Palo Alto Networks case study makes Anthropic the supplier, not the purchaser. Separate conduct by AWS, Google, Palantir, Matrix, or Palo Alto Networks is relevant to distribution-chain proximity but is not proof of an Anthropic Israeli state deployment.323334

Named Entities and Evidence Map

EntityDocumented relationshipEvidence limit
AWSPrimary cloud partner; Bedrock and Israel Region availability.3421AWS infrastructure is not Anthropic-owned infrastructure.
Google CloudClaude distribution through Vertex AI; minority Google investment.2025No Claude participation in Project Nimbus identified.
CloudZoneAuthorized local reseller and implementation partner.2Customer lists and transaction-level revenue were not disclosed.
Palo Alto NetworksUses Claude on Vertex AI for internal developer workflows.34Evidence shows Anthropic supplying, not buying from, the company.

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Economic exposure is documented through market access, usage, procurement, distribution, and capital. Anthropic lists Israel and Palestine as supported markets. Its Economic Index estimated Israel at 1.1% of observed Claude.ai use and the highest per-capita usage in that dataset, though the metric does not disclose revenue, billing, or profit.15

The Israeli Ministry of Finance procurement line is the clearest state-customer evidence. It identifies “Anthropic – Claude AI in AWS cloud” and an amount of 59,000.00; it does not identify a defence customer, specific workload, duration, allocation among vendors, or the portion received by Anthropic.6 CloudZone adds a locally headquartered reseller channel, while a Google Cloud case study identifies Israeli company spring.new as a Claude user through Vertex AI.235

Israeli institutional investment is also documented. CTech reported a $55 million Clal investment in Anthropic’s September 2025 financing and later reported cumulative positions of $185 million for Clal and $125 million for Migdal. No public evidence identified that these positions conferred control, board representation, or a disclosed ownership percentage.78

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Anthropic’s relevant product is a digital service rather than a physical-goods supply chain. No public evidence identified of settlement-origin goods, agricultural sourcing, Israeli import structures, Israeli real estate, owned infrastructure, local payroll, tax residence, sovereign-bond holdings, lending to Israeli defence firms, or profit-repatriation amounts. Observed usage should not be represented as sales, and capital flowing from Israeli institutions into Anthropic is not evidence of dividends flowing back to those investors.158

The reported Decart acquisition discussions were unresolved at the research cutoff and could fail. Decart therefore cannot be treated as an Anthropic subsidiary, and no Israeli workforce, assets, or downstream defence ties may be assigned to Anthropic on that basis.28

CloudZone’s parent-company relationships also require attribution discipline. Matrix’s settlement operations and defence-sector business are documented, but no reviewed source establishes that Claude was sold through the reported Modi’in Illit operation, supplied to a settlement customer, or included in a Matrix defence project.91213

Named Entities and Evidence Map

EntityDocumented relationshipEvidence limit
Israeli Ministry of FinanceOne January 2025 Claude-on-AWS procurement entry.6No military end user, workload, or revenue allocation disclosed.
Clal / MigdalReported institutional investments totaling $310 million cumulatively.78No disclosed control or board rights.
CloudZone / Matrix ITLocal reseller and implementation channel.29No public contract terms, margins, exclusivity, or customer list.
spring.newIsraeli company using Claude through Vertex AI.35Contract value and direct Anthropic revenue were not disclosed.
DecartReported acquisition talks.28Uncompleted and unresolved; not a subsidiary.

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

The political nexus is limited and principally arises from business geography and counterparty context rather than an explicit corporate position. Anthropic supports access in both Israel and Palestine and has not identified a special conflict-related policy for either market.1 Its authorized reseller belongs to Matrix, a company appearing in OHCHR settlement-business database updates; civil-society sources also report Matrix operations in settlements and services to Israeli state and security bodies.210111213

Anthropic’s reviewed official communications did not identify a statement specifically addressing Palestinian civilian harm, Gaza, Israeli military operations, settlements, the ICJ advisory proceedings, or ICC arrest warrants. Dario Amodei’s February 2026 national-security statement addressed permitted U.S. government uses and restrictions on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons without referring to Israel, Palestine, or Gaza.36 The audits also found no Israel-specific lobbying, anti-BDS advocacy, corporate donations to Israeli military or settlement organizations, or special employment benefits for Israeli military service.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Anthropic is not named in the reviewed 2023 or 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database materials, the reviewed UN Human Rights Council report, the cited Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Al-Haq materials, or the BDS Movement corporate-priority guide.10113738394041 These are document-scoped absences rather than proof against every possible allegation, but they directly limit claims that those bodies identified Anthropic.

No public evidence identified of an Anthropic Israel/Palestine lawsuit, OECD complaint, regulatory order, organized divestment campaign, employee retaliation over pro-Palestinian expression, or systematic suppression of Palestinian content. The audits described limited and non-dispositive external model-bias testing, but those studies did not establish a regulatory finding, an Anthropic policy, or the absence or presence of bias across Claude generally.

Matrix’s settlement record cannot be assigned wholesale to Anthropic. The CloudZone agreement postdates the assessment periods behind the relevant OHCHR listings, Anthropic and Claude are not named in them, and no reviewed evidence establishes Claude use in a settlement operation.21011

Anthropic’s corporate structure also supplies no verified Israeli state-control mechanism. No public evidence identified of Israeli state ownership, a government-appointed director, a golden share, an Israeli charter restriction, or a mission tied to Israeli geopolitical objectives. The Long-Term Benefit Trust is presented as a public-benefit governance mechanism, while UK regulatory findings did not establish control by Google or Amazon.202123

Named Entities and Evidence Map

EntityDocumented relationshipEvidence limit
Matrix ITParent of CloudZone; named in OHCHR settlement-business updates.91011Anthropic and Claude are not named in those entries.
Who Profits / AFSCReport Matrix settlement-linked operations and security-sector relationships.1213Do not identify Claude in those operations.
Long-Term Benefit TrustHolds special Anthropic governance rights.23No Israeli state ownership, veto, or state-aligned mission identified.
Richard FontaineAnthropic trust member with a U.S. national-security-policy affiliation.No Israeli defence-industry or IDF governance role established.
BDS MovementAnthropic was not named in the reviewed corporate-priority guide.41Document-scoped absence, not a universal finding.

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital9.708.003.805.27
Economic6.808.003.803.69
Political3.307.009.003.30

Digital drives V_MAX through documented Claude availability, Israeli cloud-region access, and an authorized Israeli reseller, tempered by indirect proximity and the absence of a verified Israeli military or sovereign-cloud deployment. The fixed Tier C result follows the scale-free Impact × magnitude/proximity method, applied evidence-only and retained exactly as human-vetted.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

  2. https://www.cloudzone.io/aws-partner 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

  3. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/09/amazon-bedrock-israel-tel-aviv-region/ 2 3 4 5 6

  4. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/claude-in-amazon-bedrock 2 3 4 5 6 7

  5. https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report 2 3 4 5

  6. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/generalpage/budget_law_publishes_3/he/budget_law_publishes_Report_012025-mof.pdf 2 3 4 5

  7. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1fausq9eg 2 3 4 5

  8. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/67ernijf7 2 3 4 5 6

  9. https://www.matrix-globalservices.com/wp-content/uploads/Matrix_Q4_2025_Financial-statement_English.pdf 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  10. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf 2 3 4 5 6 7

  11. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4091616/files/A_HRC_60_19-EN.pdf 2 3 4 5 6 7

  12. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4009 2 3 4 5 6

  13. https://investigate.info/index.php/company/matrix-it 2 3 4 5 6

  14. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241107699415/en/Anthropic-and-Palantir-Partner-to-Bring-Claude-AI-Models-to-AWS-for-U.S.-Government-Intelligence-and-Defense-Operations 2 3 4 5 6

  15. https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-and-the-department-of-defense-to-advance-responsible-ai-in-defense-operations 2 3 4 5 6

  16. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-national-security-customers 2 3 4 5

  17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthropic-ai-iran-campaign/ 2 3 4 5 6

  18. https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/palantir-faces-challenge-to-remove-anthropic-from-pentagons-ai-software-4542314 2 3 4 5

  19. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-claude-ai-iran-war-u-s/ 2 3 4 5

  20. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/676959bae6ff7c8a1fde9d33/Full_text_decision__.pdf 2 3 4

  21. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872426000026/amzn-20260630.htm 2 3 4

  22. https://www.anthropic.com/company 2 3 4

  23. https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust 2 3 4

  24. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118shrg53503/pdf/CHRG-118shrg53503.pdf

  25. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-anthropics-claude-3-models-in-google-cloud-vertex-ai/ 2 3

  26. https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-access-to-claude-for-government

  27. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-890937

  28. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-startup-decart-for-6-billion-2 2 3

  29. https://www.anthropic.com/news/new-offices-in-paris-and-munich-expand-european-presence

  30. https://patents.justia.com/assignee/anthropic-pbc

  31. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/models-region-compatibility.html 2

  32. https://investors.palantir.com/files/Palantir%20Q4%202023%20Business%20Update.pdf 2

  33. https://www.palantir.com/assets/xrfr7uokpv1b/1aXqmYRvd1KY5SErhxQQyo/59efaf38eb9c2494752f0131dce714a0/Palantir_Response_to_UN_SRHRP_Letter_-_22_May_2025.pdf 2

  34. https://www.anthropic.com/customers/palo-alto-networks 2 3

  35. https://cloud.google.com/customers/springnew 2

  36. https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

  37. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23

  38. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/5141/2022/en/

  39. https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

  40. https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2024/07/04/business-and-human-rights-booklet-1720077751.pdf

  41. https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott 2