Electronic Arts

Key Findings

• Economic: EA acquired cloud-gaming technology assets and personnel from GameFly’s Israeli subsidiary in 2018 for $50 million; EA confirmed closure of its Caesarea cloud-development operation and Israel offices in 2023, though an Israeli subsidiary remains listed in 2026 filings.^{1, 2, 3}
• Political: EA Play and related consumer offerings remain available in Israel, while EA music executive Steve Schnur has been publicly identified as a co-founder of Creative Community for Peace, an organisation opposing artist boycotts of Israel; the reviewed record does not establish EA institutional sponsorship or adoption of that advocacy.^{4, 5, 6}
• Ownership: Since August 2026, EA has been wholly owned through Oak-Eagle AcquireCo by a PIF-, Silver Lake-, and Affinity-backed consortium; competition records identify PIF as the sole controller, with Silver Lake and Affinity holding non-controlling minority interests.^{7, 8}
• Not found: No public evidence identified of EA contracts, products, facilities, or services for Israeli military, intelligence, police, settlements, surveillance, or occupied-territory operations in the reviewed record.^{9, 10, 11}

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• Electronic Arts Israel Ltd remains listed as an Israeli-incorporated subsidiary in EA’s FY2026 subsidiary exhibit, but the filing does not identify its current operations, staffing, customers, assets, or status.³
• EA Play on Xbox lists Israel among its available countries and territories; the source does not establish Israel-specific revenue, contracting entity, settlement availability, or geographically differentiated access.⁴
• A secondary commercial registry-data page reports a voluntary-liquidation status for Electronic Arts Israel Ltd., but this was not verified through a primary Israeli Companies Authority extract.¹³

Executive Summary

Electronic Arts is a games company whose documented Israel nexus is principally commercial and historical-operational. In May 2018, EA acquired cloud-gaming technology assets and personnel from an Israeli GameFly subsidiary; its public filing later reported $50 million in total consideration. The Caesarea-based team was described as joining EA’s central technology organisation for entertainment and cloud-gaming purposes, rather than for state, security, or military work.^{1, 14}

The most material continuing nexus is limited. EA confirmed in 2023 that it would close its internal cloud-development activities and Israel offices, while its FY2025 and FY2026 subsidiary exhibits continued to list Electronic Arts Israel Ltd. The reviewed filings do not establish that the former Caesarea centre remained operational, nor do they disclose the current entity’s staffing, activity, customer base, ownership chain, data-processing function, or physical location. EA also continues to make EA Play available to consumers in Israel, but the available consumer-service materials do not establish service provision in settlements or occupied territory.^{2, 3, 4}

The principal political vector concerns personnel-linked advocacy rather than a verified EA corporate policy. Steve Schnur, publicly identified as EA’s Worldwide Executive and President of Music, has also been identified in reporting and organisational materials as a co-founder of Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), which campaigns against artist boycotts of Israel. The reviewed material does not establish that EA funded, promoted, hosted, endorsed, or institutionalised CCFP, its events, or its anti-BDS advocacy; nor does it establish that Schnur possessed authority to bind EA politically.^{5, 6, 15}

No public evidence identified of EA or Electronic Arts Israel Ltd. holding Israeli defence, intelligence, police, prison, border-security, or settlement contracts; supplying tactical, surveillance, biometric, military-AI, or weapons-system technology; operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, the Golan Heights, or settlements; or providing logistics or infrastructure for such activities. The record also does not establish attribution to EA of activities or investments by its consortium investors merely through ownership affiliation.^{9, 10, 11, 16}

Under the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, EA receives a BRS of 375, placing it in Tier D (Moderate Complicity). The result is driven by the Political score, reflecting documented consumer availability and the bounded personnel-linked CCFP evidence, with a lower Economic score reflecting the historical Israeli technology acquisition and residual legal-entity/market nexus. It does not rest on military or digital-security allegations, for which the audits found no public evidence.^{1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10}

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

EA develops, markets, publishes, and delivers games, content, and services. Its documented Israeli operational history began with the 2018 acquisition of cloud-gaming technology assets and personnel from GameFly’s Israeli subsidiary. EA described this as an acquisition of assets and personnel, not an equity acquisition of the GameFly subsidiary, and described the acquired Caesarea team as supporting EA games and services through its central technology organisation.^{1, 14}

The operational evidence indicates that the Caesarea development centre was closed in 2023. Contemporary reporting described the work as cloud-based game streaming and internal cloud development, not surveillance, defence, intelligence, autonomous systems, or government cloud services. EA’s FY2025 and FY2026 subsidiary exhibits nonetheless continued to list Electronic Arts Israel Ltd. Those filings establish Israeli incorporation and subsidiary inclusion, but do not establish an active office, current employees, operations, ownership chain, customers, or data-processing role.^{2, 3, 21}

EA’s public locations page did not list an Israeli office when reviewed in September 2026. This is relevant but not conclusive: it does not prove absence of a legal entity, remote workers, contractors, data processing, or other non-office activity. Conversely, no public evidence identified of current EA data centres, cloud regions, sovereign-cloud participation, government cloud contracts, or data-residency arrangements in Israel within the reviewed sources.^{21, 10}

EA’s consumer products remain commercially available in Israel. EA Play on Xbox lists Israel among 41 available countries and territories, and Sony’s Israel-localised storefront offered EA Play memberships in shekels. These materials establish generic consumer availability, not the identity of a local operator, customer locations, revenue, territorial coverage in occupied territory, or a settlement nexus.^{4, 22}

Following the August 2026 take-private transaction, EA is wholly owned by Oak-Eagle AcquireCo. The acquiring consortium comprises PIF, Silver Lake-affiliated funds, and Affinity Partners-affiliated funds. European Commission and Moroccan competition materials identify PIF as the sole or exclusive controller for merger-control purposes, and Silver Lake/Affinity as non-controlling minority participants. The reviewed primary records do not disclose final equity percentages, voting rights, board seats, veto rights, or a detailed post-closing holding-company governance chart.^{7, 8, 23}

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of an EA or Electronic Arts Israel Ltd. contract, tender, framework agreement, memorandum of understanding, procurement award, or defence-cooperation announcement involving the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Police, Border Police, Israel Prison Service, or an Israeli defence prime.^{9, 24}

No public evidence identified of EA supplying components, software, manufacturing services, technology transfer, logistics, construction, machinery, facilities services, or equipment to Elbit, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI, Israeli security institutions, settlements, military installations, checkpoints, detention facilities, or occupied-territory infrastructure.^{9, 24, 11}

A historical U.S. record describes defence contractor Sonalysts’ Fleet Command, a commercial game distributed by EA, as having been customised for U.S. Navy use. This is evidence of a historical U.S. military adaptation of a commercially distributed title; it does not document EA development or supply of a tactical product to Israel.²⁵

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

EA’s strongest defence is that the documented Israeli activity concerns entertainment-oriented cloud-gaming technology and personnel, not military supply. The reviewed corporate disclosures, targeted procurement searches, and SIBAT directory review did not verify Israeli security-sector customers or end users.^{1, 9, 24}

Israeli incorporation alone is insufficient to infer defence integration. The available filings do not establish Electronic Arts Israel Ltd.’s current staffing, business line, customer base, operational status, or ownership chain. Document-scoped searches also found no EA mention in the reviewed UN, OHCHR, and PAX/FIDH materials; these findings do not establish absence from every public or non-public record.^{3, 11, 26}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

EA’s documented Israeli digital activity was a Caesarea R&D and cloud-development centre established after the 2018 GameFly asset-and-personnel acquisition. Reporting described the work as cloud-based game streaming for EA and internal cloud development; EA confirmed closure of that activity and its Israel offices in 2023.^{1, 2, 21}

No public evidence identified of EA providing surveillance systems, biometric technology, retail-security technology, military AI, autonomous systems, intelligence-analysis products, sovereign cloud services, data-routing functions, data-residency services, or government cloud services in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory.^{10, 21, 24}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The reported Caesarea work had a civilian, consumer-gaming character and was reportedly discontinued in 2023. EA’s locations page no longer listed an Israeli office, while subsidiary filings still list Electronic Arts Israel Ltd.; neither fact independently resolves whether the legal entity is dormant, liquidating, staffed remotely, or performing any residual function.^{2, 3, 21}

The absence of an Israeli office listing does not establish absence of all Israeli legal presence, contractors, infrastructure, or data processing. Equally, no public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of present Israeli data centres, cloud regions, government customers, security-sector deployments, or data-processing activity by the subsidiary.^{3, 10, 21}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

EA’s strongest documented economic connection is the 2018 acquisition of Israeli cloud-gaming technology assets and personnel for $50 million. Although the Caesarea operation was closed in 2023, Electronic Arts Israel Ltd. remained listed as an Israeli-incorporated subsidiary in FY2026. This evidences a historical investment and residual legal-entity nexus, not proof of a continuing office or comparable operating footprint.^{1, 2, 3, 14}

EA also sells consumer digital services in Israel. EA Play on Xbox is listed as available in Israel; the audited material establishes access to selected games, trials, and discounts, but not Israel-specific revenue, local contracting arrangements, settlement availability, or geographically differentiated access.⁴

The post-closing ownership structure provides an indirect financial nexus. PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity financed the Oak-Eagle acquisition, while PIF acquired sole control. Affinity’s separately documented holdings in Phoenix Financial establish a common Affinity Fund I/Parallel Fund I vehicle link with the EA transaction, but do not establish cross-subsidy, capital flows, or profits from Phoenix being contributed to EA’s parent.^{7, 8, 19, 17, 18}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

EA’s Israeli cloud-development office was closed in 2023. No public evidence identified of EA-owned Israeli factories, data centres, logistics hubs, occupied-territory real estate, Israel-focused funds, Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, Israeli government procurement, or Israel-specific financial flows.^{2, 3, 27}

No public evidence identified of EA operations, authorised resellers, facilities, or services in the West Bank, East Jerusalem settlements, the Golan Heights, or Gaza. Nor did the reviewed materials establish settlement access to EA services or a service-geofencing policy resolving that question. Consumer availability in Israel should not be hardened into evidence of settlement operations.^{4, 10}

Affinity’s Phoenix investment concerns an Israeli financial-services company. It is not verified evidence of an investment in a defence, surveillance, cyber, settlement, military-welfare, or state-security company, and its connection to EA is ownership-chain proximity rather than evidence of operational direction or capital transfer.^{17, 18, 28}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

EA has no documented corporate Israel/Palestine position in the reviewed materials. Its Global Human Rights Statement and content-moderation policy are general policies, not conflict-specific communications; no public evidence identified of an EA statement or action after 19 July 2024 or November 2024 concerning settlements, the IDF, Israeli government policy, military welfare, or Israel/Palestine lobbying.^{29, 30}

The principal documented political evidence is Steve Schnur’s association with CCFP. Reporting and CCFP materials identify Schnur as an EA music executive and CCFP co-founder. CCFP has been described as opposing BDS efforts directed at performers and Israel concerts. This supports a personnel-linked advocacy nexus, not by itself an EA corporate act.^{5, 6, 15}

EA GmbH is registered in Germany’s federal lobbying register, reporting €1–10,000 in lobbying expenditure for April 2025–March 2026 and policy areas including internal-market, youth, media, communications, IT, law, and consumer protection. The entry does not list Israel/Palestine policy. Jacob Schatz made a $5,000 contribution to the Entertainment Software Association PAC in December 2025, but the filing does not identify it as Israel/Palestine-related.^{31, 32}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified that EA funded, promoted, hosted, endorsed, or institutionalised CCFP, its “Ambassadors of Peace” gala, or its anti-BDS advocacy. The record also does not establish Schnur as an EA director, SEC-named executive officer, or person with disclosed authority to bind EA politically.^{5, 6, 15}

No public evidence identified of EA lobbying on Israel/Palestine, anti-BDS measures, settlements, or regional trade legislation; of Israeli-reservist pay, military-leave subsidies, IDF support, settlement donations, military-welfare programmes, or conflict logistics; or of direct corporate support for Israeli state-security or settlement actors.^{9, 29, 30, 31}

The acquisition consortium does not supply a basis for transitive attribution. PIF has sole control for merger-control purposes, while Affinity and Silver Lake are non-controlling minority participants. The reviewed public record does not identify Affinity’s precise stake, board appointment rights, veto rights, operational-control rights, or an Israel/Palestine-related governance role. Nor does it establish that Jared Kushner personally owned EA shares, held an EA directorship, or exercised an EA governance right.^{7, 8, 16}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

• V_MAX: 4.38 Avg_OTHERS: 0.61
• BRS Score: 375 Tier: D (Moderate Complicity)

V_MAX is driven by Political, reflecting the documented continuing Israel market presence and bounded personnel-linked CCFP evidence, subject to the important limitation that no EA institutional adoption of that advocacy was verified. Economic reflects the historical Israeli cloud-technology acquisition, former Israeli operation, continuing subsidiary listing, and consumer availability; Military and Digital are zero because the audits identified no verified military or digital-security nexus.

The V6.5 method is scale-free, evidence-only, and human-vetted. Scores reflect verified activity type, scale, and directness rather than allegation volume, inferred political alignment, or transitive association.

Methodology Note

• This dossier relies exclusively on the four supplied domain audits and their cited source record; it does not add claims from external research.
• Impact is assessed by documented activity type; M reflects scale; and P reflects directness of the evidenced relationship.
• Historical or exited activity is treated with temporal care. The 2023 reported closure of EA’s Israeli cloud-development office mitigates the significance of the prior operational footprint and cannot be presented as a continuing active centre.²
• Entity attribution is limited to evidence connecting the conduct to EA. Investor, executive, affiliate, or wider-group conduct is not automatically attributable to EA.
• A verified settlement operation would be relevant to both Economic and Political, but no public evidence identified of an EA settlement operation in the reviewed record.¹⁰
• “No public evidence identified” denotes the result of the defined documentary checks; it is not a claim that no evidence could exist outside the reviewed materials.