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Key Findings
- Economic: AT&T acquired a 15% equity stake in Israeli network-software firm DriveNets in a 2025 secondary transaction valued at roughly $750–800 million, and DriveNets software now carries more than half of AT&T’s core North American network traffic.1
- Economic/Settlements: AT&T pays recurring international-roaming fees to Israeli carriers Cellcom and Partner Communications, both of which operate cellular infrastructure - including antennas - in the occupied West Bank, and Cellcom appears in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database.234
- Political: AT&T has issued no public corporate statement on the Gaza war or Palestinian civilian casualties since October 2023, while its Israeli subsidiary publicly supported employees called to IDF reserve duty through a six-point wartime assistance plan.56
- Not found: No public evidence identifies AT&T as a direct contractor to the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, or Israeli security services, and AT&T does not appear in the UN OHCHR settlement database, the Albanese report (A/HRC/59/23), Who Profits, or the PAX arms-financier list.78910
Target Profile
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Company Name | AT&T Inc. |
| Jurisdiction | Incorporated in Delaware, United States11 |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, United States11 |
| Sector | Telecommunications; enterprise network, cloud, and managed cybersecurity services |
| Ownership | Publicly traded, NYSE: T. Largest institutional shareholders are Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street. No public evidence identified of any Israeli state or institutional entity holding a controlling or significant disclosed stake11 |
| Key Executives / Governance | Randall Stephenson, former CEO (issued 2020 racial-justice open letter, contrast case cited below)12; Nataly Kremer, VP Software Delivery Services and GM, AT&T Israel13; Rinat Zilberstein, VP R&D and GM, AT&T Israel R&D Center14; Ella Shelef-Aharoni, GM, AT&T Israel R&D Center (2023 statement)14; John M. Donovan, former AT&T CTO (2008–2019), now a Palo Alto Networks board member - a former, not current, AT&T principal15 |
| Israeli-Nexus Summary | Primarily a commercial technology investor and vendor-relationship partner in Israel (DriveNets, Amdocs, Team8, Cyera, Carbyne, Armis-embedded security services), plus indirect settlement-linked roaming payments; no documented direct military-nexus or occupation-territory operations |
Key Facts:
- Israel R&D presence since 2007 (Interwise acquisition, ~$121 million), now ~600 employees across Airport City/Lod and ToHa Tower, Tel Aviv1617.
- AT&T Foundry in Ra’anana, opened 2011, physically co-located with Amdocs18.
- Not listed in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database or the July 2025 Albanese report (A/HRC/59/23)78.
- Federal lobbying totalled approximately $36.6 million (2022–2024), with no disclosed Israel-specific lobbying issue areas19.
Executive Summary
AT&T Inc. is a US-incorporated, Dallas-headquartered telecommunications and enterprise-technology company whose relationship to Israel/Palestine runs almost entirely through commercial technology investment, vendor sourcing, and indirect settlement-linked payments rather than through defence contracting or occupation-territory operations. The company has no manufacturing base and does not produce hardware, which structurally forecloses most conventional “dual-use” or weapons-supply-chain vectors that apply to other corporate targets in this corpus1.
The strongest documented vector is economic. AT&T is Amdocs’ single largest customer for billing, CRM, and operational-support systems, and in 2025 it acquired an approximately 15% equity stake in DriveNets - an Israeli network-software company whose Network Cloud platform now routes over half of AT&T’s core North American IP traffic - in a secondary transaction reported at $750–800 million against sources spanning January through October 2025, with closing dated 16 July 2025120212223. AT&T also holds venture positions in several other Israeli-founded technology firms (Team8, Cyera, Carbyne), operates an R&D presence in Israel since 2007, and embeds Israeli-origin cybersecurity products (Check Point, SentinelOne, and the Armis platform, since acquired by ServiceNow) inside its managed-security service line2425262728. A secondary, indirect vector arises from international roaming: AT&T remits fees to Cellcom Israel and Partner Communications, both of which operate network infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, and Cellcom is separately listed in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database234.
Politically, the documented pattern is one of public silence on the conflict itself, set against visible internal support for Israeli operations and personnel. AT&T’s Israeli general managers made brief public statements about employee welfare in November 2023 and 2024, and AT&T Israel implemented a six-point wartime employee-assistance plan covering reservist support, childcare, and donations - but no AT&T corporate statement addressing the Gaza war or Palestinian civilian casualties has been identified between October 2023 and June 2026, a contrast noted against the company’s 2020 CEO-level, named-victim public advocacy on US racial justice and its 2022 removal of RT America from DirecTV following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine51412296.
What is not supported by the evidence is any direct military nexus. No public evidence has been identified of AT&T contracts with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police; no evidence places AT&T as a vendor to the Site 512 radar facility; and no evidence shows AT&T, DriveNets, Amdocs, Armis, or Carbyne holding contracts with Israeli defence primes (Elbit Systems, IAI, Rafael, or Israel Military Industries)130. Historical (2000–2001) allegations that Amdocs channelled US telephone metadata to Israeli intelligence were investigated and found no evidence of penetration of government systems3132. AT&T is absent from the UN OHCHR settlement database, the Albanese report, PAX’s arms-and-financiers report, Who Profits, and Al-Haq’s documentation, and is not a named target of organized BDS consumer-boycott campaigns7891033.
Taken together, these findings - a substantive and growing economic footprint in Israeli technology, an indirect settlement-adjacent roaming relationship, and a politically silent-but-internally-supportive posture, against the near-total absence of a military or defence-sector nexus - produce a BDS-1000 Composite Risk Score of BRS 478, Tier C (High), driven almost entirely by the Economic domain score of 7.24.
Timeline of Relevant Events
| Date | Event |
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| 2007 | AT&T acquires Interwise, an Israeli IP-conferencing company, for ~$121 million, establishing its first Israeli R&D operation at Airport City, Lod1617 |
| 2011 | AT&T Foundry opens in Ra’anana, Israel - AT&T’s only non-US Foundry location, co-located with partner Amdocs18 |
| 2016 | AT&T invests $23 million in Team8’s strategic financing round; Team8 was founded by Nadav Zafrir, a former commander of Israel’s Unit 82002434 |
| 18 Nov 2019 | DirecTV (70%-owned by AT&T) signs a multi-year distribution agreement carrying Israeli channel i24NEWS35 |
| June 2020 | CEO Randall Stephenson issues a public open letter naming victims of US police violence and pledges $10 million to racial-justice causes - cited as a contrast case for the absence of comparable Gaza-related advocacy12 |
| Oct 2021 | AT&T Israel R&D expands: ToHa Tower (Tel Aviv) center opens; Airport City center reaches 500+ staff1613 |
| 1 Mar 2022 | DirecTV removes RT America from its lineup in direct response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - cited as a contrast case29 |
| May 2022 | As You Sow challenges AT&T’s political-spending transparency[^74] |
| 7 Oct 2023 | Hamas attack on Israel; AT&T Israel initiates internal employee crisis response14 |
| 12 Nov 2023 | AT&T Israel announces a six-point wartime employee-support plan (reservist support, childcare, donations)5 |
| Mar 2024 | AT&T Ventures invests in Carbyne, an Israeli-founded emergency-communications company26 |
| Apr 2024 | AT&T Ventures participates in Cyera’s $300 million Series C25 |
| May 2024 | AT&T announces a five-year expansion of its Amdocs cloud-services deal36 |
| Aug 2024 | AT&T selects Amdocs’ connectX platform for new digital brands and MVNO operations2037 |
| 17 Dec 2024 | SEC issues a no-action letter permitting AT&T to exclude an NCPPR/MSCI shareholder human-rights proposal from its proxy materials1 |
| Jan–Oct 2025 (reported variously) | AT&T acquires |
| Jul 2025 | AT&T leads Carbyne’s $100 million Series D funding round38 |
| 2 Jul 2025 | Sale of AT&T’s 70% DirecTV stake to TPG Capital closes39 |
| 14 Aug 2025 | AT&T publishes an updated Human Rights Policy40 |
| Sept 2025 | UN OHCHR updates its settlement-business database to 158 companies; AT&T is not listed78 |
| Nov 2025 | Axon Enterprise announces acquisition of Carbyne for $625 million38 |
| Dec 2025 | AT&T eliminates its DEI programs41 |
Corporate Overview
AT&T Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, Dallas-headquartered public company (NYSE: T) whose core business is US-domestic mobile, broadband, and business wireline communications, supplemented by international enterprise services11. No golden shares, state-linked ownership structures, or founding mandates tied to any government’s geopolitical objectives have been identified11.
AT&T’s Israel-linked footprint consists of: (1) two R&D centers - Airport City/Lod (500+ staff, opened via the 2007 Interwise acquisition) and ToHa Tower, Tel Aviv (opened 2021, ~100 additional staff) - focused on 5G, cloud, GenAI, cybersecurity, and digital applications161713; (2) the AT&T Foundry in Ra’anana, an innovation/accelerator facility opened in 2011 and co-located with Amdocs1842; (3) equity and venture positions in DriveNets, Amdocs (as customer, not owner), Team8, Cyera, and Carbyne1242526; and (4) commercial vendor relationships embedding Check Point, SentinelOne, and (formerly) Armis technology into AT&T’s managed-security product line274328. AT&T holds no Israeli operating subsidiary with retail, franchise, or physical infrastructure presence inside Israel proper beyond these R&D/innovation facilities, and no public evidence identifies AT&T facilities, offices, or service contracts specifically located in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights30.
AT&T formerly held a 70% stake in DirecTV, sold to TPG Capital in a transaction that closed 2 July 2025; during the ownership period, DirecTV carried Israeli channel i24NEWS under a 2019 distribution agreement and removed Russia’s RT America in 2022293539.
Domain Summaries
Military: Military
Mechanism of Involvement
No public evidence has been identified of any direct contract, tender, or memorandum of understanding between AT&T and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police1. AT&T’s defence-adjacent activity is confined to US government contracting through AT&T Government Solutions, including a $609 million State Department task order (2024) for global diplomatic telecommunications and the FirstNet US public-safety network - both US-domestic/US-government arrangements with no identified Israeli end-user4445. The closest geographic candidate - the US AN/TPY-2 radar facility at Site 512 in the Negev, which feeds Israel’s Arrow 3 and David’s Sling missile-defence architecture - has no public evidence naming AT&T as a vendor or contractor30. The only identified indirect-adjacency flow is AT&T’s international roaming fee payments to Israeli carriers Partner Communications and Cellcom for cross-border cellular connectivity234.
Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits
AT&T does not manufacture hardware and is not a defence prime; conventional dual-use hardware classifications do not apply to its core service offerings1. It does not appear in SIBAT listings, Israeli defence-export catalogues, or BIS/DDTC enforcement records1. Its Israeli technology investees (DriveNets, Armis, Carbyne) show no public evidence of contracts with Israeli defence primes (Elbit Systems, IAI, Rafael, Israel Military Industries)1. Historical (2000–2001) allegations that Amdocs supplied US telephone records to Israeli intelligence were investigated by US authorities, which found no evidence that government telephone systems were penetrated; these allegations are dated, uncharged, and of unconfirmed current relevance3132.
Named Entities and Evidence Map
- DriveNets - 15% AT&T equity stake; CEO Ido Susan has a reported IDF intelligence-unit background; no evidence of Israeli defence-ministry contracts146.
- Amdocs - AT&T’s largest billing/CRM vendor; subject to historical, unproven espionage allegations (2000–2001)3132.
- Armis Security - Israeli-founded, IDF-veteran co-founders; general-purpose OT/asset-visibility platform integrated into AT&T Cybersecurity, later acquired by ServiceNow; no evidence of weapons-system involvement1.
- Carbyne - AT&T Ventures investee; civilian 911/emergency-dispatch platform; no defence-sector ties identified26.
- Site 512 (Negev radar) - geographically proximate US-Israel missile-defence infrastructure; no AT&T vendor relationship identified30.
Digital: Digital
Mechanism of Involvement
AT&T’s digital-domain nexus is built on enterprise vendor relationships with Israeli-origin technology firms: DriveNets for core network routing software (52% of AT&T’s production traffic)1; Amdocs for BSS/OSS and billing (AT&T is Amdocs’ largest customer)20473637; and Check Point, SentinelOne, and (via ServiceNow’s later acquisition) Armis technologies embedded in AT&T’s managed cybersecurity services (AT&T Email Security with Check Point, Managed Endpoint Security with SentinelOne, AT&T Dynamic Defense with Palo Alto Networks)274328. AT&T also holds venture stakes in Team8 (2016, $23 million), Cyera (2024, part of a $300 million round), and Carbyne, and operates the Ra’anana Foundry as a co-innovation hub with Amdocs18242526.
Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits
No public evidence identifies AT&T directly procuring or deploying Israeli-origin biometric or facial-recognition technologies (e.g., AnyVision, BriefCam, Trigo) in its own operations. AT&T is not a Project Nimbus contractor; while its hyperscaler suppliers (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS) are Nimbus awardees, no evidence establishes AT&T workloads running on Nimbus-provisioned Israeli cloud regions48. AT&T does not operate data-centre infrastructure inside Israel; its documented presence is R&D and engineering offices only49. No public evidence identifies AT&T marketing sovereign-cloud or data-residency services to Israeli state or military bodies, nor providing AI/ML systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies. AT&T does not appear as a named target of organized BDS technology-sector campaigns, which instead concentrate on Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Cisco, and Oracle.
Named Entities and Evidence Map
- DriveNets - critical network-infrastructure dependency (52% of core traffic) plus equity stake1.
- Amdocs - multi-decade billing/CRM relationship; AT&T is largest customer47.
- Check Point / SentinelOne / (former) Armis - embedded in AT&T LevelBlue managed-security offerings; indirect, bundled deployment to AT&T’s enterprise customer base, not direct AT&T procurement for Israeli end-users274328.
- Team8 / Cyera - venture-stage cybersecurity investments; Team8 founded by a former Unit 8200 commander2434.
- Project Nimbus hyperscalers - AT&T is a customer of Azure/GCP/AWS generally, not a Nimbus contractor itself48.
Economic: Economic
Mechanism of Involvement
This is AT&T’s most heavily evidenced domain. AT&T’s 2025 acquisition of a 15% DriveNets stake ($750–800 million secondary purchase) transferred substantial capital directly to Israeli founders (Ido Susan, Hillel Kobrinsky), employees, and venture investors (Pitango, Bessemer, Harel, Poalim Equity)1212223. AT&T is Amdocs’ largest customer, a relationship that funds a substantially Israel-based R&D and operations workforce even though Amdocs is Guernsey-domiciled47. AT&T operates the Ra’anana Foundry (since 2011) and R&D centers employing roughly 600 staff, and holds additional equity/venture positions in Carbyne (AT&T Ventures led its 2025 $100 million Series D; Carbyne is being acquired by Axon for $625 million) and Cyera263850. AT&T’s international roaming agreements generate recurring payments to Cellcom, Partner Communications, and Pelephone, carriers whose networks (per AFSC and simtoisrael documentation) extend into West Bank areas including Bethlehem, Hebron, and Ramallah; Cellcom is separately listed in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database with 171 antennas in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem23451.
Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits
AT&T’s own annual reports and investor filings do not characterize Israel as a strategic growth market, named geographic segment, or material revenue geography - the “significant foreign investor” framing is journalistic, not an AT&T self-characterization1152. AT&T’s inbound exposure (its DriveNets equity, Carbyne investment) sits on AT&T’s own balance sheet as a US financial asset; any appreciation or liquidity event accrues to AT&T, not to Israel, and the R&D centers function as a cost centre whose output (IP, engineering work-product) flows to the US parent11. No public evidence identifies Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, Israeli state ownership of AT&T, or a formal industry designation of AT&T as a sector anchor within the Israeli economy. AT&T is not individually listed in the UN OHCHR settlement database or Who Profits79. No public evidence establishes whether the timing of AT&T’s 2025 DriveNets/Carbyne transactions - which post-date the ICJ’s July 2024 advisory opinion on occupation illegality - reflected any deliberate consideration of that ruling.
Named Entities and Evidence Map
- DriveNets - 15% equity stake, ~$750–800M outbound capital flow to Israeli sellers, 52% of AT&T core traffic1212223.
- Amdocs - largest-customer billing/CRM relationship; ongoing outbound revenue flow partially funding Israeli payroll47.
- Cellcom Israel / Partner Communications / Pelephone - roaming-fee recipients; Cellcom named in UN OHCHR settlement database (171 West Bank/East Jerusalem antennas)234.
- Carbyne - AT&T Ventures-led investment and Series D; Israeli municipal (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem) and United Hatzalah use documented; no confirmed Israeli defence-ministry contract2638.
- AT&T Foundry (Ra’anana) / R&D centers - ~600 employees, cost-centre function161718.
Political: Political
Mechanism of Involvement
AT&T’s political-domain footprint is characterized primarily by public silence on the Israel/Palestine conflict combined with visible internal support for Israeli operations. AT&T Israel’s general managers issued brief public statements in November 2023 and 2024 regarding employee welfare, and the Israeli subsidiary implemented a six-point wartime employee-support plan (reservist-family support, childcare, donations, laptop donations, a partnership with Neve Hanna boarding school)514. No AT&T corporate statement on the Gaza war or Palestinian civilian casualties has been identified between October 2023 and June 20266. This is contrasted in the audit record against AT&T’s 2020 CEO-level, named-victim public advocacy on US racial justice and a $10 million pledge, and DirecTV’s 2022 removal of RT America in direct response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine1229. AT&T eliminated its DEI programs in December 202541, and published an updated Human Rights Policy in August 2025 whose conflict-zone content could not be confirmed in available materials40. A grassroots union movement, CWA for Palestine, has called on AT&T to divest from Israeli equity and bonds; AT&T has not publicly responded53.
Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits
AT&T does not appear in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database in any edition (2020, 2023, or September 2025), nor in the Albanese report (A/HRC/59/23), which names 48 corporate actors but no telecommunications companies78. AT&T does not appear on BDS National Committee or USCPR consumer-boycott target lists54. AT&T’s federal lobbying (~$36.6 million, 2022–2024) and PAC contributions carry no disclosed Israel-specific issue areas or evidence of AIPAC-aligned targeting; the company states it makes no direct corporate contributions to federal candidates1955. A 1991 shareholder proposal urging AT&T to phase out Israel-related sales was defeated by AT&T shareholders with margins exceeding 91%, indicating the company’s historical posture reflects standard commercial engagement rather than an activist pro- or anti-Israel policy56. AT&T did not respond to a 2024 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre survey on Israel/OPT human-rights due diligence - one of roughly 100 non-respondent companies - which limits, rather than establishes, an affirmative political record57.
Named Entities and Evidence Map
- AT&T Israel R&D leadership (Ella Shelef-Aharoni, Rinat Zilberstein) - public wartime employee-welfare statements, no geopolitical corporate framing14.
- Randall Stephenson (former CEO) - 2020 racial-justice advocacy, cited as contrast, not as an Israel/Palestine statement12.
- DirecTV (70% AT&T-owned until July 2025) - carried i24NEWS (2019–2025); removed RT America (2022)293539.
- CWA for Palestine - internal union advocacy for divestment; no AT&T response identified53.
- Amdocs - described as “one of AT&T’s largest Israeli partners,” ~24–27% of Amdocs’ FY2022–2023 revenue from AT&T1858.
BDS-1000 Score (V4)
| Domain | I | M | P | V-Domain Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Military | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.01 |
| Digital | 2.50 | 2.00 | 2.50 | 0.26 |
| Economic | 7.80 | 6.50 | 8.50 | 7.24 |
| Political | 5.00 | 3.50 | 5.00 | 1.79 |
- V_MAX: 7.24 Sum_OTHERS: 2.06
- BRS Score: 478 Tier: C (High)
The V_MAX driver is unambiguously Economic: AT&T’s DriveNets equity stake, Amdocs vendor dependency, and multiple Israeli venture investments constitute a documented, substantial, and directly attributable pattern of capital flow to Israeli technology-sector actors, scored high on both magnitude (M=6.5) and proximity/directness (P=8.5). Military and Digital remain near-floor, reflecting the near-total absence of direct defence contracting or state-security digital deployment. Political sits at a moderate 1.79, reflecting documented political silence and indirect wartime support rather than active advocacy or lobbying engagement. Per the BDS-1000 method, the composite BRS (478, Tier C/High) is computed from scale-free Impact × magnitude/proximity scoring across all four domains, applied only to evidence documented in the four domain audits and subjected to human vetting.
Methodology Note
- Scoring draws exclusively on findings documented in the Military, Digital, Economic, and Political domain audits for AT&T; no claim in this dossier originates outside those four audits.
- Each domain score is scale-free: Impact (I) reflects the type of activity (e.g., direct military contracting vs. commercial vendor relationship); Magnitude (M) reflects scale (transaction size, revenue share, footprint); Proximity (P) reflects directness of the nexus to Israeli state/military conduct.
- A temporal-mitigation rule applies: divested, exited, or historically superseded relationships (e.g., the 2001 Amdocs espionage allegations, found unsubstantiated; AT&T’s 2025 sale of DirecTV) are treated as mitigating rather than aggravating factors.
- Entity attribution follows a no-transitive-guilt standard: allegations against investees, vendors, or partner companies (e.g., DriveNets, Amdocs, Carbyne) are attributed to AT&T only where AT&T’s own conduct (investment, procurement, revenue relationship) is independently documented - not by association alone.
- Where a fact pattern implicates both economic and political dimensions (e.g., roaming-fee payments to settlement-linked Israeli carriers), it is dual-counted across Economic and Political per methodology, rather than assigned to a single domain.
- Wherever the domain audits’ own checks returned nothing, this dossier states “No public evidence identified” and does not infer, harden, or extrapolate a claim beyond what the audits established, including honoring each audit’s own caveats of “unverified,” “unresolved,” or “divested.”
End Notes
Footnotes
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https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-869943 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17
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https://investigate.afsc.org/company/partner-communications-co ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://investigate.afsc.org/company/cellcom-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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Political Domain Audit (AT&T Inc., 29 June 2026) - internal citation 1 (six-point wartime employee-support plan); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Political Domain Audit - internal citations 8, 17 (absence of corporate statements on Gaza, Oct 2023–June 2026); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271725000013/t-20241231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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Political Domain Audit - internal citations 13, 14, 42 (Stephenson 2020 racial-justice letter and $10 million pledge); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://www.telecompaper.com/news/atandt-to-open-new-randd-centre-in-tel-aviv - 1401662 ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 36 (Israeli GM public statements on the conflict); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/who-we-are/leadership-governance/board-of-directors/john-m-donovan.html ↩
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https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3920852,00.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://www.lightreading.com/business-management/at-t-opens-foundry-in-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 9 (federal lobbying expenditure figures, 2022–2024); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2
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https://www.amdocs.com/news-press/att-selects-amdocs-enable-disruptive-digital-brands ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-att-buys-15-stake-in-drivenets-1001523222 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://www.techinasia.com/news/att-buys-650m-shares-israeli-software-firm-drivenets ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://www.marketscreener.com/news/at-t-inc-nyse-t-acquired-an-unknown-minority-stake-in-drivenets-ltd-from-founders-employees-and-ce7c5cd9d088f526 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://cdn-cybersecurity.att.com/docs/product-briefs/managed-endpoint-security-sentinelone-ranger.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 15 (DirecTV removal of RT America, March 2022); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://camera.org/article/fox-news-s-carl-cameron-recycles-more-rubbish ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/microsoft-qualcomm-invest-in-israels-team8-cyber-effort/ ↩ ↩2
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Political Domain Audit - internal citations 30, 34 (DirecTV/i24NEWS distribution agreement, November 2019); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://www.lightreading.com/oss-bss-cx/at-t-expands-deal-with-amdocs ↩ ↩2
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Political Domain Audit - internal citations 28, 29 (DirecTV sale to TPG Capital, closed 2 July 2025); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 41 (AT&T Human Rights Policy update, 14 August 2025); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2
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Political Domain Audit - internal citations 16, 37 (AT&T DEI program elimination, December 2025); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 38 (CWA for Palestine internal union demands); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩ ↩2
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 27 (absence of AT&T from BDS/USCPR boycott target lists); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 10 (Employee Federal PAC contributions, 2023–2024 cycle); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 35 (1991 National Alliance shareholder proposal and vote outcome); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 31 (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre 2024 survey non-response); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩
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Political Domain Audit - internal citation 32 (Amdocs revenue share from AT&T, FY2022–FY2023); source URL not included in provided audit materials. ↩





