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Fairphone

Consumer Electronics 151 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-02 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 3 /1000 E Tier E - Limited
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 0.02 Political ↗ 0.04

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Key Findings

  • Economic: Fairphone’s direct sales and delivery policies cover specified European countries and the United States, not Israel; third-party Israeli marketplace listings establish advertised availability only, not an authorised Fairphone channel or Fairphone revenue.1, 2
  • Political: No public evidence was identified in the bounded review of an official Fairphone statement on Israel, Palestine, Gaza, settlements, BDS, or Palestinian civilian harm.3
  • Settlements: The reviewed OHCHR settlement-business database updates and UN Special Rapporteur report did not mention Fairphone; these are document-scoped findings, not proof of absence from all records or relationships.4
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of Fairphone contracts, procurement, or technology deployment for Israeli military, intelligence, police, prison, or other security bodies.5, 6

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameFairPhone B.V.7
JurisdictionNetherlands; Dutch private limited company registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce under KvK 55901964.7
HeadquartersVan Diemenstraat 200, 1013 CP Amsterdam, Netherlands.7
SectorModular, repairable consumer electronics, including smartphones, audio products, accessories, spare parts, and related software/services.8, 9
OwnershipPrivate and not publicly listed. Public records identify 2023 financing participants including Invest-NL, ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund, Quadia/Regenero, DALHAP, DOEN Participaties, and PDENH, but do not establish current ownership percentages, voting rights, beneficial owners, or control.10, 11
Key Executives / GovernanceRaymond van Eck (CEO and managing director); Oscar Visser (CFO and managing director); leadership materials also identify Chandler Hatton (CTO), Monique Lempers (CIO/Chief Impact Officer in differing current materials), Rutger Sneep (CCO), and Ellie Lang (Director of People and Culture). The supervisory board disclosed in the 2024/2025 records includes chair Eelco Blok, Bas van Abel, Astrid Rauchfuss, Elfrieke van Galen, Gustavo Burnier, and Besma Kraiem.11, 12
Israeli-Nexus SummaryNo verified Fairphone commercial, military, digital-service, settlement, political, or corporate-operational nexus with Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory was identified; the record includes unverified third-party marketplace listings and private/user-reported device routes that do not establish a Fairphone channel.1, 2, 5

Executive Summary

Fairphone B.V. is a Dutch consumer-electronics company whose documented activity concerns modular and repairable smartphones, audio products, accessories, software support, and ethical-sourcing initiatives.7, 8, 9 The four domain audits did not identify public evidence that Fairphone operates an Israeli office, subsidiary, authorised distributor, importer, tax registration, facility, workforce, or market-specific revenue stream in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory.1, 13

The principal documented Israel-related market evidence is limited and does not establish a corporate nexus. Fairphone’s stated direct-sales and delivery territories are specified European countries and the United States, with Israel absent from the published lists.1 Third-party Desertcart Israel listings advertised Fairphone devices and represented them as sold by Amazon Israel and delivered by Desertcart, but these pages do not establish Fairphone authorisation, upstream sourcing, completed sales, Fairphone revenue, importer-of-record status, warranty obligations, or delivery into occupied territory.2 Historical forum posts and later user reports describe private forwarding or device use in Israel; they are not corporate shipping records or evidence of authorised distribution.14

No public evidence was identified of direct defence contracting, Israeli military or security procurement, tactical variants, defence-prime supply, military logistics, Israeli cloud or surveillance deployments, Project Nimbus participation, or technology provision to Israeli state-security bodies.5, 6 The consumer-device record includes standard authentication and app-data functions, but the reviewed materials do not identify an Israeli-origin surveillance vendor, Israeli data centre, Israeli processor, Israeli R&D site, or Israeli security deployment.9, 15

The political and public-communications record likewise does not establish an affirmative Israel/Palestine position or political activity by Fairphone. No official statement concerning Israel, Palestine, Gaza, settlements, BDS, or Palestinian civilian harm was identified in the bounded review, and no public evidence was identified of Israel-related lobbying, anti-BDS activity, political donations, military-welfare support, or state partnership.3, 16 The absence findings are bounded: they do not resolve non-public transactions, private imports, unlisted reseller relationships, undisclosed upstream supply-chain links, or undisclosed personal holdings.9, 1, 17

On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment supplied for this dossier, Fairphone receives a BRS score of 3, Tier E (Minimal/No Complicity). The small economic score records only the limited, caveated evidence of third-party marketplace availability. The political score is the method’s mandatory neutrality floor triggered by that positive economic nexus; it does not represent verified political conduct.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
2 July 2015Fairphone B.V. was incorporated, according to the 2024 annual report.11
2014–2016Fairphone Community Forum posts described delivery to Europe followed by private carriage to Israel and an Israeli user-group proposal; these were user statements, not corporate distribution records.14
27 January 2023A consortium involving Invest-NL, ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund, Quadia/Regenero, DALHAP, DOEN Participaties, and PDENH announced a €49 million Fairphone financing transaction; the disclosures do not establish current ownership or control.10
May 2024Fairphone’s supply-chain report identified Chinese final assemblers for Fairphone smartphones and audio products and reported identified supplier-production facilities principally in East and Southeast Asia; Israel was not among the reported facility locations.8
26 January 2025Astrid Rauchfuss, Elfrieke van Galen, Gustavo Burnier, and Besma Kraiem were appointed to Fairphone’s supervisory board; Josephine de Zwaan stepped down.12
2025Fairphone’s Gen. 6 launch materials named European and US retail and telecom partners without naming an Israeli distributor, carrier, or retailer.18
2 September 2026Desertcart Israel pages displayed Fairphone listings; the pages establish advertised third-party availability only and not Fairphone authorisation or operations.2

Corporate Overview

FairPhone B.V. is documented as a standalone Dutch private limited company at its Amsterdam address.7, 11 Its public annual-report and legal materials identify Fairphone B.V. as the principal company for the documented consumer-electronics business and relevant product or service activities.7, 9 The reviewed reports do not provide a subsidiary schedule or complete beneficial-ownership table; the LEI record also does not name a direct or ultimate parent and records a natural-person non-disclosure reason.11, 19

A US entity, FairPhone, Inc., is publicly identified as a Delaware corporation and contracting/warranty entity for the US online business and recycling programme.20 The retrieved public materials do not establish whether FairPhone, Inc. is a subsidiary, affiliate, agent, distributor, or other contractual counterpart of FairPhone B.V.20

The documented production footprint is principally Asian rather than Israeli. Fairphone’s May 2024 supply-chain disclosure identified T²Mobile in Huizhou, China, as final assembler for Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5, and Honsenn Technology in Dongguan, China, as assembler for Fairbuds products.8 The disclosure mapped suppliers progressively and cautioned that inclusion does not itself establish a direct commercial relationship with every manufacturer; it also excluded certain upstream actors, including refiners, smelters, traders, and mines.8, 17 It therefore does not rule out all possible upstream links, but it does not document an Israeli or settlement-linked Fairphone supplier relationship.8, 17

No public primary record was identified naming an Israeli Fairphone distributor, dealer, authorised reseller, importer, franchisee, Israeli entity, or occupied-territory channel.1, 13 Fairphone’s published direct-sale policy does not include Israel, while independent partners and self-import remain possible routes outside direct territories under non-Fairphone sales and logistics arrangements.1

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of a Fairphone contract, tender award, vendor record, procurement relationship, memorandum of understanding, or other documented relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body.5, 21

Fairphone’s reviewed product record describes consumer modular smartphones and related operating-system functionality. It does not describe a tactical, ruggedised, mil-spec, defence-grade, or Israeli-security-force-specific variant.9, 22 No public evidence identified that Fairphone supplies weapons, munitions, targeting systems, weapons-integration software, military logistics, construction equipment, or components to Israeli defence primes.5, 21

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that the reviewed record supports a civilian consumer-electronics character and contains no verified Israeli military customer, defence sale, export licence, procurement award, or public vendor record.9, 5 Fairphone’s software licence contains general export-control and prohibited-end-use clauses, but it does not name Israel or document an Israeli military end user.23

These are bounded public-record findings. They do not exclude non-public procurement, secondary-market acquisition, unauthorised resale, private import, or other indirect routes that would not appear in the reviewed sources.1, 17

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Fairphone’s privacy and data-disclosure materials identify ordinary consumer-service data functions for its apps and services, including account data, device identifiers, device snapshots, support, analytics, CRM, and related backend processing.9 The record identifies providers such as Auth0, Bloomreach, Zendesk, Firebase, Google Analytics, Odoo, and Clever Cloud, but it does not establish implementation-specific hosting, routing, access arrangements, or actual data flows for each service.9, 24

No public evidence identified that Fairphone uses or deploys specified Israeli-origin enterprise-security, surveillance, facial-recognition, behavioural-analysis, cloud, AI, or cyber vendors.6, 15 No public evidence identified that Fairphone operates an Israeli data centre, participates in Project Nimbus, provides Israeli government cloud or AI services, or supplies surveillance, intelligence, cyber, AI, or autonomous systems to Israeli state bodies.6, 15

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that Fairphone is documented as a consumer-device company, not a defence, surveillance, cloud, or AI supplier, and no verified Israeli public-sector or security deployment was identified.9, 6 Device biometric features are described as consumer authentication; the record does not identify an Israeli biometric supplier or a Fairphone surveillance deployment.15

Public sources do not disclose every hosting region, routing path, processor, or subprocessor configuration. The absence findings therefore do not eliminate the possibility of undisclosed technical relationships or data flows.9, 24

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Fairphone’s disclosed manufacturing and supplier facilities are predominantly in China and other East and Southeast Asian locations, and Israel was not among the reported identified facility locations.8 Its public source map states that first- and second-tier suppliers have been mapped while deeper-tier research remains in progress; the disclosure does not establish the location of every upstream participant.17

No public evidence identified of Fairphone sourcing from, investing in, owning, or being controlled by an Israeli or settlement-linked commercial entity in the reviewed supply-chain, corporate, investor, and accountability materials.10, 17 No public evidence identified of Israel-specific revenue, profits repatriated to Israel, Israeli tax contribution, Israeli facilities, commercial importation, or an authorised Israeli distributor.1, 13

Third-party Israeli marketplace listings are the principal limited economic lead. They establish advertised availability by marketplace actors only, not Fairphone-authorised distribution, direct sales, revenue, or an Israeli commercial operation.2

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that Fairphone’s stated direct market scope excludes Israel and the reviewed record does not identify a Fairphone office, warehouse, retailer, tax registration, importer, authorised reseller, revenue line, or settlement operation there.1, 13 Fairphone’s disclosed manufacturing footprint also does not identify Israel.8

The supply-chain record is incomplete at excluded or unmapped upstream tiers, and the absence of an Israel-specific revenue line cannot prove that no indirect sale or private import occurred.8, 17 Marketplace availability, private forwarding, or customer use should not be treated as proof of an authorised commercial channel.2, 14

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of an official Fairphone statement regarding Israel, Palestine, Gaza, the occupation, settlements, BDS, or Palestinian civilian harm in the bounded corporate and targeted-search review.3 No public evidence identified of Israeli government partnership, Brand Israel activity, state honour, political lobbying, anti-BDS activity, donations to Israeli military-welfare bodies, settlement entities, or related political conduct by Fairphone.16, 25

The reviewed OHCHR settlement-business database updates and UN Special Rapporteur report did not mention Fairphone. Those checks are document-scoped and do not establish relationship-wide absence.4 No public evidence identified of a Fairphone-specific boycott, divestment, or sanctions campaign based on Israel or occupied-territory conduct in the reviewed campaign material.4, 26

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is the absence of a verified affirmative political or state-partnership record and Fairphone’s publicly stated mission around ethical consumer electronics, repairability, responsible materials, and supply-chain conditions rather than a geopolitical or security programme.8, 3 No verified current controlling-owner record permits attribution of political activity to a controlling Fairphone principal.11, 19

The political-finance, charity, lobbying, foundation, beneficial-ownership, and personal-investment review was incomplete in several jurisdictions. No public evidence identified should not be read as proof that undisclosed personal, family-office, or non-public activity cannot exist.16, 19

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5 (vetted).

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic1.001.001.000.02
Political2.001.001.000.04

The fixed V6.5 result is driven by Political at 0.04, which is the mandatory neutrality floor triggered by the positive Economic nexus rather than evidence of political conduct. Economic at 0.02 records advertised third-party marketplace availability only; Military and Digital are zero because the audits identified no verified military/security or Israeli digital-infrastructure nexus. This is a scale-free, evidence-only, human-vetted method; it does not infer misconduct from marketplace listings, historical private imports, or incomplete disclosure.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/34512757194130-Buying-and-using-Fairphone-products-outside-of-Europe-and-the-United-States ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  2. https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/740025012-gen-6-modular-android-smartphone-8gb-256gb-50mp-ai-camera ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  3. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Fairphone-Impact_Report-2025.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/OurServices/Pages/%E2%80%8BDefense%20and%20HLS%20directory.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  6. https://www.mod.gov.il/en/departments/sibat-international-defense-cooperation ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  7. https://www.fairphone.com/legal/impressum ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  8. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SCE-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  9. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Data-Disclosure-Statement-Fairphone.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  10. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Impact-investor-consortium-invests-E49-million-in-Fairphone.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Fairphone_BV_-_Annual-report-2024-fully-signed-ryq3tdbpptg8mp4hr439b3cu6e.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  12. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Fairphone-welcomes-new-Supervisory-Board-members-for-its-next-growth-phase-1.pdf ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.fairphone.com/fairphone-for-business-resellers ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://forum.fairphone.com/t/is-there-a-delivery-to-israel/2393 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://www.fairphone.com/aer ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://www.fairphone.com/legal/fairphone-os-end-user-license-agreement ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  17. https://www.fairphone.com/hub/en/impact/source-map-transparency/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  18. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Fairphone-Gen.-6-Press-Release-Final.docx.pdf ↩

  19. https://lei.bloomberg.com/leis/view/724500CMLPSLXBZSUL67 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://us.fairphone.com/legal/fairphone-warranties ↩ ↩2

  21. https://www.online.mod.gov.il/eng/Pages/General/Info/Start.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  22. https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system ↩

  23. https://www.fairphone.com/fr/legal/fairphone-os-end-user-license-agreement ↩

  24. https://www.fairphone.com/us/legal/fairphone-privacy-policy ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. https://www.fairphone.com/resources/pdf/Fairphone%20-%20Annual%20report%202025%20-%20was%20signed%20version.pdf ↩ ↩2

  26. https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott ↩