Fiverr POLITICAL

Corporate Communications & Public Stance

No dedicated corporate statement addressing the Israel-Gaza conflict - a ceasefire position, acknowledgment of Palestinian civilian harm, or comparable public framing - has been identified across Fiverr’s official blog, newsroom, or investor-relations releases ^{1, 2}. CEO Micha Kaufman’s most substantive 2023 public commentary concerned Israel’s domestic judicial-overhaul crisis, in which he stated the country was “witnessing the worst value destruction in Israel’s history” and warned of “divisions within Israeli society” - commentary that predates and is distinct from the October 7 war and does not address Palestinians or Gaza ³. Following October 7, 2023, Fiverr co-founded “Lev Echad” (One Heart) alongside HiBob, a civilian volunteer-logistics aid initiative, and provided its Tel Aviv headquarters as the operation’s “tech war room” ^{4, 5, 6}.

The only identified Fiverr corporate reference to the October 7 attacks appears inside its Q3 2023 earnings release of 9 November 2023, which described “the unexpected and appalling atrocities that happened in Israel on October 7” and the ongoing war triggered by that event - framed within financial and operational commentary rather than as a standalone geopolitical position statement ⁷. The same release stated that Fiverr’s “business is conducted primarily outside of Israel, and only a portion of our team is located in Israel” ⁷, a framing that sits in tension with contemporaneous reporting that Fiverr employed roughly 600 people in Israel against about 400 abroad ³. In the Q4 2023 earnings call of 22 February 2024, CEO Micha Kaufman’s only further reference bundled the two conflicts generically, describing a year of “increasing geopolitical uncertainties, with the ongoing war in Ukraine and the onset of war in the Middle East,” without elaboration on Gaza or Palestinian civilian impact ^{8, 9}.

By contrast, Fiverr issued explicit public statements of solidarity with Ukraine in 2022, built a dedicated “Support Ukraine Through Your Work” marketplace storefront, waived standard seller safety-clearance/payout-delay requirements for Ukrainian freelancers, and directed store-fee proceeds toward Ukrainian Red Cross and World Central Kitchen relief efforts ^{10, 11, 12}. No comparable dedicated marketplace initiative, fee waiver, or named charitable campaign benefiting Palestinian or Gazan freelancers has been identified for the 2023–2026 period ^{1, 2}.

Civil-society boycott campaigns list Fiverr on grounds including its Israeli incorporation and headquarters, its contribution of tax revenue to the Israeli state, its perceived role in “Startup Nation” soft-power branding, and the absence of any company statement on the conflict or protections for Palestinian freelancers ^{1, 13, 2, 14}. One boycott-advocacy social media account characterizes Kaufman as “a staunch zionist who supports the IDF,” though this characterization traces only to a social-media reference rather than a documented primary quote ¹⁵. Multiple sources note that Fiverr is not a formally BDS-Movement-listed company, distinguishing grassroots boycott inclusion from the official BDS target list ^{1, 14}. No public evidence identified of any direct corporate rebuttal, press response, or anti-boycott statement addressing these campaigns; the only related public disclosure is Fiverr’s own SEC risk-factor acknowledgment that boycott campaigns “could adversely affect their business” ¹⁶.

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

All identified Fiverr physical presence is located within Tel Aviv proper, including its former Sarona-area/Kaplan Street headquarters and its subsequent leased space on the Wix campus ^{17, 18, 19}. No public evidence identified of Fiverr operations, offices, or subsidiary activity sited within an Israeli settlement, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights, and neither the Who Profits research center’s tagging nor the AFSC Investigate settlement-industry database returned a Fiverr-specific listing in available searches ²⁰. No public evidence identified of Fiverr’s inclusion in the UN OHCHR database of businesses operating in Israeli settlements: the database’s most recent update, published 26 September 2025, lists 158 business enterprises from 11 countries - including Israeli telecommunications and IT firms such as Bezeq, Cellcom, Partner Communications and Matrix IT - and Fiverr does not appear among them ^{21, 22}. Fiverr likewise does not appear in the Al-Haq/Profundo “Don’t Buy into Occupation” (DBIO V) report of November 2025, which names companies such as Cellebrite and Airbnb ²³.

Fiverr’s two identified acquisitions of Israeli operations are also sited inside Israel proper rather than in occupied territory: Stoke Talent, a Tel Aviv-based freelance-workforce management platform, was acquired for $95 million in an announcement dated 2 November 2021 ²⁴. Its subsequent acquisition of the dropshipping-automation tool AutoDS, announced 31 July 2024 on undisclosed terms, involves a company described in the announcement as based in Denver, Colorado ²⁵. Fiverr’s own Form 20-F discloses, as a risk factor, that “the State of Israel and Israeli companies have been subjected to economic boycotts” and that such campaigns pose a business risk - a corporate risk disclosure rather than evidence of an active regulatory finding against the company ¹⁶.

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

No public evidence identified of any Fiverr-specific HR action, termination, or disciplinary case involving employee speech on Israel-Palestine, political symbols, or union activity.

A May 2026 report by 7amleh surveying roughly thirty digital-economy platforms found that Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank can technically create Fiverr accounts but face structural payout barriers; boycott-tracking sources characterize Fiverr’s access status as “Access: Yes; Payout: Difficult” for Palestinians versus full access for Israeli citizens, and note that Palestinian freelancers on such platforms lose an additional 20–30% of earnings to third-party currency-exchange intermediaries because direct payout infrastructure is unavailable to them ^{1, 26, 27}. Broader reporting corroborates this pattern of structural exclusion of Palestinians from major digital platforms as a sector-wide phenomenon ²⁸. This payout disparity is described as a structural issue shared across multiple global platforms - including PayPal, Payoneer, Stripe, and Skrill - rather than a Fiverr-specific policy choice ¹.

Retail-style sourcing or labeling disputes are not applicable to Fiverr’s business model as a services marketplace; No public evidence identified of settlement-origin goods labeling or categorization controversy involving the platform.

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

No public evidence identified of Fiverr using military heritage, defense-sector ties, or state-security origin narratives in its commercial branding; third-party boycott-directory analysis characterizes Fiverr’s public brand narrative as centered on “Startup Nation”-style entrepreneurship rather than a military-heritage marketing angle ¹⁴. Fiverr’s headquarters address placed the company in the Sarona district of Tel Aviv, adjacent to HaKirya, the compound housing IDF General Staff and Ministry of Defense headquarters, though this reflects geographic proximity rather than a documented institutional partnership ^{17, 18}. No public evidence identified of Fiverr accepting Israeli state honors, formally hosting government officials at corporate events, or sponsoring an official “Brand Israel” government public-relations campaign.

Search results repeatedly attribute to Fiverr’s board chair, identified in those results as Dr. Giora Yaron, service on the Advisory Board of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the advisory board of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems; this claim traces to a source excluded from this audit’s evidentiary base and could not be confirmed against a primary biography, filing, or Rafael/IMOD release, and is therefore recorded as unconfirmed rather than asserted as fact.

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

OpenSecrets campaign-expenditure vendor records show “Fiverr Inc” received $19,487 in reported payments from political campaigns as a vendor, and “Fiverr International Ltd” received $2,078 in the 2024 cycle - both reflecting campaigns paying Fiverr for services rendered rather than Fiverr making political contributions ^{29, 30}. No public evidence identified of a Fiverr corporate PAC or a federal or state lobbying registration specific to Israel-Palestine policy, trade legislation, or anti-boycott legislation.

The most concrete documented instance of wartime corporate-resource mobilization is Fiverr’s co-founding role in Lev Echad (One Heart) and its provision of Tel Aviv headquarters space as the initiative’s operating base beginning October 2023, alongside reported initial funding ^{4, 5, 6}. Contemporaneous reporting identifies three founding technology companies - Fiverr, HiBob and monday.com - as having initially funded the launch, with monday.com donating the technology for the operation’s AI coordination platform and the companies meeting the running costs of the operation while volunteers gave their time free of charge ⁴. The same reporting describes over 30,000 volunteers operating across more than 22 locations in Israel plus one New York office handling international donations, and states that the initiative served both displaced civilians from southern Israel and military personnel ⁴. No public evidence identified of Fiverr donations to FIDF, JNF/KKL, Regavim, Im Tirtzu, or settlement organizations. A claimed employee “reservist salary subsidy” policy surfaced only through a source excluded from this audit’s evidentiary base and could not be corroborated against any primary Fiverr document, and is therefore flagged as uncorroborated rather than asserted as fact.

The Anti-Defamation League’s 2023 roundup of shareholder proposals concerning human rights in conflict-affected areas names Caterpillar, Amazon, PayPal, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics as recipients of such proposals; Fiverr does not appear among the companies listed ³¹.

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

Fiverr International Ltd. is incorporated in Israel and headquartered in Tel Aviv, and has traded on the NYSE under the ticker FVRR since its June 2019 IPO ¹⁶. Its Form 20-F filings reflect a standard commercial-enterprise structure; No public evidence identified of state-held “golden shares,” a charter provision tying its mission to state geopolitical goals, or any founding document indicating a non-commercial governmental mandate. Fiverr’s 20-F risk factors disclose reliance on Israeli government tax-incentive regimes, including references to “Approved Enterprise,” “Benefited Enterprise,” or “Preferred Enterprise” status under Israel’s Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments, 1959 - a standard tax-incentive framework broadly available to Israeli technology companies rather than a bespoke state-partnership arrangement ¹⁶. Kaufman has publicly framed Israeli incorporation and hiring as a deliberate fiscal contribution, stating: “We want to create jobs here that ultimately benefit the tax system, and the tax returns to all residents,” and arguing that high-tech workers paid 36% of Israel’s total taxes in 2022 ³. Fiverr publishes annual Environmental, Social and Governance reports, with 2022 and 2023 editions identified, setting out its stated governance and social-responsibility framework ^{32, 33}.

Executive & Leadership Footprint

Fiverr’s investor-relations governance materials list its board of directors and senior management, with Micha Kaufman identified in company materials as CEO and Chairperson ^{34, 35}. Separate secondary search results - traceable to a source excluded from this audit’s evidentiary base - name Dr. Giora Yaron as board chairman with Israeli Ministry of Defense Advisory Board and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems advisory-board ties. This is a direct contradiction between sources on who currently holds the chair role that could not be resolved within the available material and is flagged here rather than asserted as fact.

Kaufman’s documented 2023 public commentary addresses the domestic Israeli judicial-overhaul crisis and its economic impact, not the Gaza conflict or Palestinians specifically ³. A boycott-advocacy social media account characterizes Kaufman as “a staunch zionist who supports the IDF,” sourced only to a reference to his personal account without an identified quoted statement ¹⁵. No public evidence identified of personal donations, family-foundation grants, or fundraising activity by Micha Kaufman, Shai Wininger, or other named Fiverr executives directed to FIDF, JNF, or other parastatal or military-welfare organizations. Two long-serving non-executive directors carry documented Israeli institutional profiles. Adam Fisher has served on Fiverr’s board since January 2011 and has been a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners since 2007, founding that firm’s Tel Aviv investment practice ³⁶. Investigative reporting places Fisher at a 22 November 2023 event addressing Israeli high-tech leaders, investors and entrepreneurs, presenting alongside IDF Major Libby Weiss, who appeared in uniform, on how to win the “information war” on social media; the reporting states his slides advanced a “ridicule works” strategy and discussed criticizing and ridiculing prominent pro-Palestinian or Israel-critical figures on X/Twitter, naming Representative Rashida Tlaib, analyst Mariam Barghouti and investor Paul Graham ³⁷. Ron Gutler has served on Fiverr’s board since April 2019 and as Lead Independent Director since May 2021; he chaired NICE Systems Ltd. from May 2002 to February 2013, a company specialising in voice recognition, data security and surveillance, and has also served on the board of CyberArk Software Ltd. ^{38, 35}.

A Fiverr Community forum thread titled “Clarification on Fiverr’s Involvement in Israel-Palestine Conflict” exists but its content and any company reply could not be retrieved for this audit ³⁹.