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Broadcom

Hardware & Semiconductors 46 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-22 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 766 /1000 B Tier B - Severe
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 4.37 Political ↗ 8.90
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Key Findings

  • Economic: Broadcom discloses design, product and software-development engineering resources in Israel and lists locations in Nazareth and Tel Aviv, but does not disclose Israel-specific staffing, revenue, taxes, manufacturing or product origin.1, 2
  • Political: The Samueli Foundation, founded by Broadcom co-founder and director Henry Samueli and his wife, made documented grants to Israel-related recipients, including Friends of Ir David and P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds; these are personal-foundation records, not disclosed Broadcom corporate grants.3, 4
  • Digital: Israeli procurement notices identify intended VMware Israel Ltd. licence engagements for the Ministry of National Security, while a reported 2013 IDF VMware arrangement predates Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware; neither record establishes current Broadcom military provision or deployment.5, 6
  • Not found: No public evidence identified in the reviewed material of a Broadcom contract with the IDF or Israeli Ministry of Defense, participation in Project Nimbus, settlement operations, Israeli military-product variants, or offensive cyber tools for Israeli state actors.7, 8, 9

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameBroadcom Inc.
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.10
HeadquartersPrincipal executive offices: 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California, United States.10
SectorSemiconductor, semiconductor-based and infrastructure-software solutions.10
OwnershipNasdaq: AVGO. As disclosed in February 2026, Vanguard held 9.9% of common shares, BlackRock 7.3%, and Henry Samueli 1.8%; the disclosures identify no controlling shareholder.11
Key Executives / GovernanceHock E. Tan, President and CEO; Harry L. You, current Board Chair; directors include Henry Samueli, Diane M. Bryant, Gayla J. Delly, Kenneth Y. Hao, Check Kian Low and Justine F. Page. The 2026 proxy identifies Tan, Kirsten M. Spears, Mark D. Brazeal and Charlie B. Kawwas as named executive officers.11, 12
Israeli-Nexus SummaryBroadcom reports Israeli engineering resources and lists Israeli locations and channel relationships; reviewed evidence also records Israel-related philanthropy by the Samueli Foundation, but does not establish Broadcom settlement operations or verified current Israeli military contracting.1, 2, 3, 7

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Broadcom is a Delaware-incorporated, Palo Alto-headquartered technology company supplying semiconductor and infrastructure-software solutions. Its documented Israel nexus is principally an operational and historical corporate one: its filings disclose design, product and software-development engineering resources in Israel, and its public materials list locations in Nazareth and Tel Aviv. The reviewed records do not quantify the Israeli workforce, identify the functions or legal employing entities of those locations, or disclose Israel-specific revenue, tax payments, manufacturing, or product origin.1, 2, 10

The strongest documented digital evidence concerns VMware. A 2013 trade-press report said Israel’s Ministry of Defense selected VMware virtualisation solutions for IDF servers and data centres. That reported arrangement predates Broadcom’s November 2023 acquisition of VMware, is not a primary procurement record, and does not establish continuation under Broadcom. Separate 2025 Ministry of National Security notices state an intent to contract with VMware Israel Ltd. for licences, but they are intended engagements rather than verified awards or deployments and do not identify military, intelligence, or occupied-territory use.5, 6, 13

The principal political vector derives from the Samueli Foundation rather than Broadcom corporate activity. The Foundation was founded by Henry and Susan Samueli and has made grants to Israel-related organisations, including Friends of Ir David and P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds. Those records are relevant to the footprint of Broadcom’s co-founder and director, but they do not establish corporate Broadcom donations, political advocacy, settlement funding by Broadcom, or a corporate policy concerning Israel/Palestine.3, 4

The record also contains substantial exculpatory findings. No public evidence identified in the bounded reviews of a verified Broadcom contract with the IDF or Ministry of Defense; military product variants or weapons integration; Project Nimbus participation; settlement, East Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, or Golan Heights operations; offensive cyber products for Israeli state actors; or corporate anti-BDS advocacy. These are evidence-limited, document-scoped findings rather than proof that undisclosed activity cannot exist.7, 8, 9

Under the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, Broadcom receives a BRS of 766, classified as Tier B (Severe Complicity). The outcome is driven by the Political maximum score, with a secondary Economic score; Military and Digital are scored zero because the audits did not verify the required direct military or digital nexus.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
December 20, 2006A historical employee-stock-plan schedule listed Broadcom Israel Ltd. and Broadcom Israel Research Ltd. as participating corporations; it does not establish their present status, ownership or role.14
April 2011Broadcom Corporation acquired Provigent Inc., a mixed-signal semiconductor provider for microwave-backhaul systems, for approximately US$313 million net of acquired cash; the reviewed record does not establish the present status of that relationship.15
2013Globes reported that Israel’s Ministry of Defense selected VMware virtualisation solutions for IDF servers and data centres. The report predates Broadcom’s VMware acquisition and does not establish present continuation.6
July 2018Broadcom announced its proposed $18.9 billion cash acquisition of CA Technologies.16
November 22, 2023Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware.13
2025–2028Israel’s Ministry of National Security published sole-supplier intent notices involving VMware Israel Ltd.; the notices do not establish completed awards, deployments, or military/intelligence end use.5
2026Globes reported a $50 million Henry and Susan Samueli gift to a cancer institute at Beilinson Hospital, following an initial $25 million founding gift; it was reported as personal philanthropy, not a Broadcom corporate donation.17

Corporate Overview

Broadcom Inc. defines itself in its FY2025 Form 10-K together with its consolidated subsidiaries. It supplies semiconductor, semiconductor-based and infrastructure-software solutions, including software for private, hybrid-cloud and edge environments.10, 18 Its significant-subsidiary disclosure names, among others, Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited, Avago Technologies U.S. Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Broadcom Technologies, Inc., CA, Inc., VMware LLC, VMware Global, Inc., VMware Management Inc. and VMware International Unlimited Company. The exhibit is expressly limited to significant subsidiaries and is not a complete legal-entity chart.19

The record supports current company-listed Israeli locations in Nazareth Industrial Park and at Tel Aviv University, and identifies Tel Aviv as a featured office. It does not establish the relevant employing entities, legal ownership chains, workforce scale, technical remit, customer-data role, or data-centre status of those locations.2, 20 Historical documents identify Broadcom Israel Research Ltd., Broadcom Israel Ltd., Broadcom Communications Israel Ltd., and acquired Israeli-linked businesses including VisionTech, Percello and Provigent; the supplied documents do not resolve each entity’s current status or operating role.14, 15, 21

Broadcom’s partner materials identify Israeli support and consulting-channel relationships, including C-Data, Ness and ICTBIT Solutions. These listings establish partner availability or service offerings, not particular customer contracts, Israeli state procurement, military use, settlement activity, or occupied-territory service geography.22, 23

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of a Broadcom contract, tender award, framework agreement or memorandum with Israel’s Ministry of Defense, the IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body in the reviewed sources.7

The audit located a reference to Broadcom Software personnel, then associated with Symantec research, analysing GoldenCup malware reportedly used by IDF soldiers in 2018. This was malware analysis directed at a malicious application; it does not establish product sale, procurement, operational support, military end-user licensing, or a purpose-built kinetic capability.24

No public evidence identified of Broadcom supply to Israeli defence primes, weapons programmes, military installations, checkpoints, detention facilities, the separation barrier, or settlements. The reviewed materials likewise did not verify export licences, end-user certificates, sanctions actions, or litigation concerning supply to Israeli military or security end users.7, 25, 26

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Broadcom’s strongest defence is the absence of verified primary evidence connecting it to Israeli military procurement or weapons integration. Its documented Israeli locations are civilian corporate locations, and the reviewed location list does not identify an office in the West Bank, East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights.2

The historic GoldenCup reference is not a defence contract and cannot be treated as evidence of operational support. Likewise, the SIBAT catalogues identify Israeli defence suppliers and categories but do not establish Broadcom as an exhibitor, supplier or contracting counterparty.24, 25 These conclusions remain bounded to the reviewed documentary record.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

The record documents a reported 2013 VMware arrangement for IDF servers and data centres. It was reported by Globes, predates Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, and lacks a reviewed primary Ministry of Defense contract record. It therefore cannot establish current Broadcom provision.6, 13

Two Ministry of National Security notices identify intended sole-supplier engagements with VMware Israel Ltd. for virtualisation licences during 2025–2027 and 2025–2028. The notices record intentions, not confirmed awards or actual deployment; they do not identify locations, datasets, military use or intelligence end use.5

No public evidence identified of Broadcom or VMware participation in Project Nimbus, provision of surveillance or biometric technologies to Israeli state actors, offensive cyber tools, autonomous targeting systems, or access to civilian-population or intercepted-communications datasets.8, 9

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Broadcom’s infrastructure-software business is civilian in character on the reviewed record. VMware virtualisation products can be used across public and private organisations, and the cited notices do not establish an abusive, military, intelligence, or occupied-territory application.5, 18

The audit does not claim that no undisclosed work exists. It finds only that the reviewed filings, procurement material and document checks did not verify such work. The contact-page Israeli locations likewise do not establish a cloud region, sovereign-cloud operation, data centre, or data-residency service.2, 8

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Broadcom discloses engineering resources in Israel and publicly lists locations in Nazareth and Tel Aviv. This establishes an Israeli operational footprint but not its scale, output, workforce, revenue, tax contribution, or specific corporate entity.1, 2

A Broadcom partner-support directory identifies C-Data and links to an Israel-domain VMware-by-Broadcom support page. This establishes an Israeli partner-support intermediary, but not sales to the state, IDF, settlements, or a named end customer.22

The group has historical Israeli-linked corporate relationships, including the acquisition of VisionTech assets in 2001 and the acquisition of Provigent in 2011. The reviewed primary materials do not establish their present operating status, Israeli employment, manufacturing activity or any defence or settlement nexus.15, 21

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of Israeli manufacturing sites, Israel-specific revenues or tax payments, Israeli tax residency, Preferred Technology Enterprise treatment, Israeli state financing, Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, or settlement-linked operations.1, 10

No public evidence identified of West Bank, East Jerusalem or Golan Heights locations, resellers, sales sites or service sites. The cited UN and NGO-document checks are document-scoped and do not prove broader absence across every affiliate or database.26

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

The Samueli Foundation states that Henry and Susan Samueli founded it in 1999 and supports organisations in California and Israel. Its 2022 and 2023 returns record grants to Israel-related recipients, including Friends of Ir David, P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, AIEF, Birthright Israel Foundation, Friends of United Hatzalah and other named organisations.3, 4

The 2023 return records a $200,000 grant to Friends of Ir David and a $50,000 grant to Friends of United Hatzalah, classified by the Foundation under its “religious” grant-purpose category without specifying recipient-level end uses. It also records a $299,400 consulting payment to Moses Miracles Ltd. at a Tel Aviv address as an expense rather than a charitable grant.4

These are personal-foundation records linked to Broadcom co-founder and director Henry Samueli. They do not establish disclosed Broadcom corporate grants, Broadcom political spending, anti-BDS lobbying, or company control of the Foundation.3, 4, 11

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Broadcom’s strongest defence is that the identified donations were made by a separate family foundation, not disclosed as corporate Broadcom giving. The reviewed material found no public evidence of Broadcom corporate PAC activity concerning Israel/Palestine, anti-BDS advocacy, settlement-event sponsorship, conflict-period resource mobilisation, military-welfare donations, or FIDF/JNF/KKL donations.3, 4

No public evidence identified of a state-held share, golden share, charter provision, founding mandate or primary corporate mission tying Broadcom to Israeli state geopolitical objectives. Ownership disclosures identify no controlling shareholder.11

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic6.005.109.004.37
Political8.907.009.008.90

V_MAX is Political at 8.90, reflecting the vetted political-footprint record associated with the Samueli Foundation, while Economic reflects the documented Israeli operational presence and channel relationships. Military and Digital remain zero because the audits did not verify direct military contracting or a qualifying current digital-security nexus. The score is scale-free, evidence-only and human-vetted; it is not a finding that every alleged relationship was substantiated.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000173016824000139/avgo-20241103.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. https://www.broadcom.com/company/contact ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  3. https://www.samueli.org/about-us/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  4. https://www.samueli.org/media/ooaan4q4/samueli-foundation-2023-annual-tax-return.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  5. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/4000596856 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  6. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1000901457 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://mod.gov.il/en/departments/defense-procurement-directorate-dpd ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  8. https://www.gov.il/en/pages/_bpress_20102022 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://investigate.afsc.org/occupations ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000173016825000121/avgo-20251102.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000119312526085691/d49254ddef14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. https://investors.broadcom.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors ↩

  13. https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-completes-acquisition-vmware ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  14. https://investors.broadcom.com/static-files/9c1dd01a-3571-4ab1-8121-4c2cdd4c8cb4 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://investors.broadcom.com/static-files/eb535fc8-44b3-48c1-8a65-90e45b86b8d3 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-acquire-ca-technologies-189-billion-cash ↩ ↩2

  17. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-beilinson-hospital-receives-record-donation-for-cancer-research-1001541668 ↩

  18. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000173016825000121/avgo-20251102.htm ↩ ↩2

  19. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000119312525200188/d89314dex211.htm ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.broadcom.com/company/careers/featured-offices ↩ ↩2

  21. https://investors.broadcom.com/static-files/f896cbbc-f42f-4d3f-ac05-6aef40152d7b ↩ ↩2

  22. https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/222311/partner-support-contact-information.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. https://expert.broadcom.com/partners/consulting-services/ictbit-solutions ↩

  24. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/the-cyber-strategy-and-operations-of-hamas-green-flags-and-green-hats/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Exhibitions/DSEI/Documents/ISRAEL%20at%20DSEI%20LONDON%202023.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2