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(BDS-1000 Corpus - Company Dossier)

Key Findings

• Economic: HPE’s Israeli subsidiary holds sole-supplier status on a renewing portfolio of Israeli government IT contracts - the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Police, and the Population and Immigration Authority’s “Aviv” population registry - collectively worth low millions of NIS annually and running through 2026–2028.¹
• Military: HP/HPE won Israel’s largest-ever military servers tender (NIS 500 million, December 2011) and was reported in July 2024 to have been selected to lead a new IDF server-farm project, though HPE has not publicly confirmed the latter and no signed-contract value has surfaced.²³
• Political: The BDS National Committee and over 100 unions and solidarity organisations have petitioned the UN to add HPE - treated as a distinct target from HP Inc. - to the OHCHR database of businesses linked to Israeli settlement activity; HPE’s actual inclusion in that database remains unconfirmed.⁴⁵
• Not found: No public evidence of HPE supplying weapons systems, munitions, or components to Israeli defence primes (Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael), no evidence of heavy-machinery or construction involvement in settlements or the separation barrier, and no evidence of Israel-specific lobbying or PAC spending by HPE.⁶⁷

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd., established 1998 in Ra’anana, is the contracting vehicle for all HPE-Israel government business and was retained by HPE (not HP Inc.) at the 2015 split.⁹
• HPE acquired the Tel Aviv/San Mateo cloud-security firm Axis Security in March 2023 and the Herzliya/Boston cloud data-protection firm Zerto in July 2021 ($374 million).¹²¹³
• HPE’s global FY2024 revenue was approximately $31.8 billion; documented Israeli government contracts total well under $5 million annually.¹⁴

Executive Summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a US-listed enterprise-IT company whose documented Israel/Palestine nexus is narrower, more recent, and more diffuse than the nexus historically associated with the unified “HP” brand. That brand’s most serious documented entanglements - the Basel biometric checkpoint system controlling Palestinian movement, the Beitar Illit settlement R&D centre, the Ariel settlement “Smart City” project, and pre-2017 Israeli Navy IT work - originated under the pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company and EDS, passed briefly through HPE at the November 2015 corporate split, and were transferred onward to DXC Technology at the April 2017 Enterprise Services spin-off; DXC in turn sold its Israeli IT business to Ness (Hilan Group) in 2022.³¹¹ Under a strict entity-attribution standard, none of these flagship historical items are properly attributable to HPE today.

What HPE retained and has continued to operate, however, is a live and renewing book of Israeli government contracts. HPE Israel holds sole-supplier status for server and storage maintenance to the Israel Prison Service (contracts running to February 2026), Data Center Care services to the Israel Police (renewed through December 2026), and Itanium server provision to the Population and Immigration Authority’s Aviv population-registry system - which includes the “Yesha” database of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank - under a contract running to June 2026.¹¹⁵ HPE Israel also holds a sole-supplier contract for computing infrastructure underpinning Israel’s national biometric ID system, running through May 2028.¹ These are civilian-facing government IT-services contracts, awarded through non-competitive, sole-supplier procurement mechanisms, and collectively modest in value (each a few hundred thousand to a few million NIS).

The most significant open question in the record is a July 2024 report, sourced to the advocacy research organisation Who Profits, that HPE was selected by the Israeli military to supply hardware for and manage contractor selection on a new, reportedly underground, IDF server farm.²³ HPE has not publicly confirmed this selection, no contract value has been disclosed, and no independent Israeli procurement notice has been identified; it is carried in this dossier as a reported, unconfirmed selection rather than a verified signed contract. Separately, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s July 2025 report to the Human Rights Council states that “HP” has supplied technology to COGAT, the Israeli prison service, and police, but no independently verifiable procurement records tying that statement to a specific HPE (as opposed to HP Inc. or legacy-HP) contract have been identified.¹⁶

Evidence is notably absent in several areas where allegations against other companies in this corpus have been substantiated. No public evidence was identified of HPE supplying weapons systems, munitions, or components to Israeli defence prime contractors (Elbit Systems, IAI, Rafael, Israel Military Industries); no evidence of HPE equipment or machinery used in settlement construction, demolitions, or the separation barrier; no evidence of Israel-specific lobbying, PAC contributions, or executive political advocacy; and no confirmation that HPE is currently listed in the OHCHR database of businesses linked to Israeli settlements - a petition by over 100 unions and organisations to add HPE indicates it was not listed as of that campaign, and its status after the September 2025 database update is unconfirmed.⁴⁵¹⁷ HPE has issued no public statement addressing the Gaza conflict.¹⁸

Weighed together - a real but comparatively contained economic/administrative nexus (population registry, prisons, police, biometric ID), a reported-but-unconfirmed military nexus, sustained but contested political/advocacy attention, and the absence of weapons, machinery, or lobbying findings - the evidence record supports a Tier B (Severe) classification at BRS 636, driven principally by the Economic domain (7.43) and moderated by the near-floor Military score (0.92) reflecting how much of the historically cited military-adjacent activity has in fact migrated to other corporate entities.

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

HPE was created on 2 November 2015 when the former Hewlett-Packard Company split into HP Inc. (consumer PCs and printers) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (enterprise servers, storage, networking, and services).⁸ HPE is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Spring, Texas.⁵ In April 2017, HPE further divested its Enterprise Services division, which merged with Computer Sciences Corporation to form DXC Technology - a transaction of central importance to this dossier, since DXC inherited the bulk of the historically most controversial HP-branded Israel/Palestine contracts (Basel checkpoint system, Beitar Illit R&D centre, Ariel Smart City project, Israeli Navy IT).¹¹ DXC subsequently sold its Israeli IT subsidiary (Entserv Israel) to Ness, a subsidiary of the Hilan Group, in 2022, severing those historical items from any entity in the HP corporate lineage still trading as HPE.¹¹

HPE’s Israeli operations run through its wholly owned subsidiary, Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd. (Ra’anana), established in 1998 and retained by HPE - not HP Inc. - at the 2015 split.⁹ This subsidiary is listed among HPE’s subsidiaries in SEC filings and is the contracting entity for all HPE-Israel government tenders.⁹ It markets HPE’s full enterprise portfolio - ProLiant servers, storage, Aruba networking, and GreenLake hybrid cloud - to the Israeli market via a dedicated Israeli-market website and local sales and support operation.²² A reported Israel headcount of roughly 2,500 for “Hewlett-Packard Israel” conflates both post-split entities (HP Inc. and HPE) and cannot be attributed to HPE alone; HPE does not disclose Israel-specific headcount or revenue.⁹

HPE’s Israeli technology footprint was substantially reshaped by two acquisitions: Zerto (Herzliya/Boston, cloud data-protection and disaster recovery), acquired for $374 million in July 2021 and integrated into the GreenLake portfolio as an active HPE R&D site; and Axis Security (Tel Aviv/San Mateo, cloud security), acquired in March 2023, whose Atmos SSE/SASE platform has no identified military or defence application.¹²²¹ Neither acquisition target is documented as having sold products to Israeli defence or security entities.²¹

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE’s military-domain nexus consists of inherited and current Israeli government/security IT contracts rather than weapons, munitions, or purpose-built military hardware. The historically largest item - a December 2011, NIS 500 million tender described as Israel’s largest-ever military servers tender, covering the IDF and Israeli security forces, plus a parallel five-year MoD/IDF server-farm management contract - passed to HPE at the 2015 split and onward to DXC Technology at the April 2017 spin-off.³ A 2014 exclusive IDF personal-computer supply contract (extendable to 2019) has uncertain post-split attribution given HP Inc.’s retention of consumer/PC product lines.³ The Basel biometric checkpoint system - an EDS-originated (1999) system governing Palestinian movement through military checkpoints, expanded through 2015 to cover at least nineteen checkpoints - was held by HPE only briefly (2015–2016) before the Israeli MoD confirmed it “scrapped” at end-2016, ahead of the DXC spin-off.³ The 2009 Israeli Navy IT virtualisation contract (the Navy having enforced the Gaza blockade since 2007) also transferred to DXC in 2017 and is discontinued under HPE.³¹¹ A July 2024 report states HPE was selected by the Israeli military to supply hardware for and manage contractor selection on a new, reportedly underground, server farm - the most significant currently-live military-domain item, though unconfirmed by HPE and without a disclosed contract value.²³

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The overwhelming majority of HPE’s historically cited military-adjacent Israel contracts are, on the documented corporate-succession record, no longer HPE’s: the Basel system, the Israeli Navy contract, and (per some sources) the 2011 IDF server tender’s continuation all passed to DXC Technology in April 2017, and DXC in turn exited its Israeli IT business entirely in 2022.¹¹ The 2024 military-server-farm report rests on a single advocacy-research source (Who Profits) and has not been confirmed by HPE, an Israeli procurement notice, or independent reporting; no contract value, scope document, or signed-agreement date is available.² No public evidence was identified of HPE selling purpose-built, contract-modified, or military-specified hardware - the products documented (ProLiant and Itanium servers, SAN switches, blade servers) are standard commercial enterprise equipment sold globally to civilian clients.³ No public evidence was identified of HPE supply relationships with Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, or Israel Military Industries, nor of HPE acting as a prime contractor or licensed manufacturer of weapons systems. Separately reported November 2025 US Department of Defense/DISA cloud-modernisation contracts are US-domestic engagements with no Israel nexus.⁵

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Israel Defense Forces / Israeli security forces - NIS 500 million server tender (Dec 2011); reported July 2024 military server-farm selection (unconfirmed).²³
• Israeli Ministry of Defence - five-year server-farm management contract (2011–2016); Basel checkpoint contract (1999–2016, terminated).³
• Israeli Navy - IT virtualisation contract (2009), discontinued/transferred to DXC (2017).³¹¹
• EDS Israel / DXC Technology - inherited Basel system and Navy contract at April 2017 spin-off; exited Israeli IT business to Ness/Hilan Group (2022).¹¹
• War Resisters’ International - named HP “War Profiteer of the Month” (2014) for Basel and IDF server contracts.¹⁹

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE’s digital-domain nexus centres on Israeli government surveillance- and identity-adjacent infrastructure: sole-supplier Itanium server provision to the Population and Immigration Authority’s Aviv population registry (containing the “Yesha” settler database), running June 2023–June 2026 at NIS 3,829,410, with HPE holding sole-supplier status since 2017; and biometric-documentation and national-biometric-ID computing-infrastructure maintenance contracts, including a May 2025 award (NIS 3,129,750, through May 2028).¹¹⁵ HPE also holds continuous Israel Prison Service server/storage maintenance contracts and Israel Police Data Center Care contracts with embedded engineers.¹ The Basel checkpoint biometric system, by contrast, is a DXC/legacy-HP item, terminated at end-2016 and out of scope for HPE from that point.³ The Zerto acquisition (2021) folded an Israeli-founded (Herzliya) cloud-data-protection R&D team into HPE’s GreenLake product line; no Israel-military-specific application of Zerto’s technology has been identified.¹²

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence was identified of HPE developing or supplying AI or autonomous-systems technology specifically for Israeli military or intelligence applications; HPE’s AI and supercomputing offerings are marketed to the general Israeli enterprise market via standard product pages.²³ A widely circulated claim that HPE won a roughly $500 million contract to upgrade Israel’s “smart border” surveillance system could not be verified against any primary source and is excluded from this dossier as unverified. The Aviv system’s database-management function - as distinct from HPE’s current hardware/server-supply role - transferred to DXC in 2017, and the Aviv system itself is reported to be in the process of replacement by an IBM-built system, indicating a wind-down trajectory for this particular contract rather than an expanding one.¹⁵²⁰ HPE’s inclusion in the OHCHR business-and-settlements database is unconfirmed; a petition by over 100 organisations to add HPE indicates it was not listed as of that campaign.⁴

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Population and Immigration Authority - Aviv system, sole-supplier Itanium server contract (2017–2026).¹¹⁵
• Israel National Digital Agency / Ministry of Interior - biometric ID computing-infrastructure maintenance (2022–2028).¹
• Israel Prison Service - continuous server/storage maintenance contracts (2015–2026).¹
• Israel Police - Data Center Care contracts with embedded engineers (2017–2026).¹
• Zerto (Herzliya/Boston) - HPE-owned since 2021; commercial cloud data-protection R&D, no identified military application.¹²
• Who Profits, AFSC Investigate, BDS Movement - maintain dedicated HPE profiles distinct from HP Inc. and DXC.¹³⁷

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE’s economic nexus runs through Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd. as the vehicle for sole-supplier Israeli government procurement: the Aviv system server contract (NIS 3,829,410, to June 2026), the national biometric ID infrastructure contract (NIS 3,129,750, to May 2028), the Israel Police Data Center Care contract (NIS 4 million, to December 2026), and Israel Prison Service maintenance contracts (NIS 445,000, to February 2026).¹ These are non-competitive, sole-supplier awards. The single largest HPE–Israel capital event is the $374 million Zerto acquisition (2021), which brought an active Israeli R&D and engineering site (Herzliya) into HPE’s corporate structure, contributing to Israeli employment and tax revenue.¹² HPE’s Itanium server hardware supplied to Israeli agencies is manufactured in the United States; no public evidence was identified of HPE products manufactured in or labelled as originating from Israeli settlements.¹⁵

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The documented Israeli government contracts are, in aggregate, operationally marginal against HPE’s scale: they total well under $5 million annually against FY2024 global revenue of approximately $31.8 billion, and HPE does not disclose Israel-specific revenue or profit.¹⁴ HPE’s shareholder base is composed of standard US institutional funds (Dodge & Cox, Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street) with no Israeli sovereign or state-linked institutional block identified.⁹ No public evidence was identified of additional HPE acquisitions of Israeli-headquartered companies beyond Zerto and Axis Security; other recent HPE acquisitions (Cape Networks, Niara, Scytale, Ampool) are US- or South Africa-based with no Israeli R&D nexus.⁹ The Beitar Illit settlement R&D facility - an economically and symbolically significant item in the broader “HP” record - is a DXC asset from April 2017 onward and is not attributable to HPE.¹¹ No profit-repatriation disputes, special fiscal arrangements, or Israeli export-control disputes involving HPE were identified.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd. - Ra’anana, est. 1998; sole contracting vehicle, listed as an HPE subsidiary in SEC filings.⁹²⁴
• Zerto (Herzliya/Boston) - $374 million acquisition, July 2021, ~500 employees at acquisition.¹²
• Axis Security (Tel Aviv/San Mateo) - acquired March 2023; reported ~$500 million value disputed by HPE.²¹
• Population and Immigration Authority, Israel Police, Israel Prison Service, Israel National Digital Agency - sole-supplier government counterparties.¹
• Institutional shareholders (Dodge & Cox, Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street) - no Israel-specific holding identified.⁹

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE has issued no standalone public statement addressing the Gaza conflict or the Israeli-Palestinian situation post-October 2023, and none was identified in its 2024–2025 newsroom or investor-relations archive.¹⁸ The BDS National Committee names HPE as a boycott target distinct from HP Inc., citing HPE’s inherited and current Israeli government contracts (Israel Prison Service, Israel Police, Population and Immigration Authority) as ongoing-complicity evidence, most recently in April 2024.²⁰ Over 100 unions and solidarity organisations have petitioned OHCHR to add HPE to the UN database of businesses linked to Israeli settlement activity - a petition that itself indicates HPE was not listed as of that campaign.⁴ HPE operates a registered federal PAC (FEC C00196725; ~$1,140,188 in 2024-cycle candidate contributions) and disclosed roughly $3.14 million in 2024 lobbying expenditure (plus ~$1.07 million in Q1 2026), covering high-performance computing/AI, international tax, and antitrust matters - none of it Israel-specific.²⁵²⁶

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence was identified of HPE making Israel-specific PAC contributions, funding pro-Israel (or pro-Palestine) advocacy, or engaging in Israel-directed legislative lobbying; HPE does not appear among pro-Israel PAC contributors in OpenSecrets’ 2024 data.²⁵ HPE’s published political-engagement and advocacy policy addresses only US electoral and lobbying disclosure and was not identified as addressing Israel/Palestine or conflict zones generally.²⁷ No evidence was identified of internal employee activism, shareholder resolutions, or board-level governance action specifically targeting HPE’s Israeli contracts in 2024–2025 (earlier, historical divestment actions by the Presbyterian Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and Sweden’s SEB in 2014–2017 targeted the pre-split/legacy HP entity and are noted as historical context, not current HPE governance action).⁷ No board member or the CEO was identified as having made a public statement on Israel/Gaza, holding an Israeli company board seat, or signing a pro-Israel or pro-Palestine open letter.¹⁰ HPE’s actual OHCHR database status remains unconfirmed rather than adverse.⁴

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• BDS National Committee - names HPE as a distinct boycott target from HP Inc. (infrastructure contracts rationale).⁷²⁰
• Who Profits, AFSC Investigate - maintain HPE-specific, procurement-sourced profiles distinct from HP Inc. and DXC.¹³
• 100+ unions and solidarity organisations - petitioned OHCHR to add HPE to the settlement-business database.⁴
• Antonio Neri, President and CEO - no identified public statement on Israel/Gaza.¹⁰
• HPE federal PAC (FEC C00196725) - no Israel-specific disclosure identified.²⁵

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

• V_MAX: 7.43 Sum_OTHERS: 13.77
• BRS Score: 636 Tier: B (Severe)

V_MAX is set by Economic (7.43), reflecting HPE’s sustained, sole-supplier economic entanglement with Israeli government administrative and security infrastructure (population registry, prisons, police, biometric ID) - high impact and directness even though contract values are individually modest. Military sits near the floor (0.92) because most of the historically cited military-adjacent HP contracts (Basel, Navy IT, elements of the 2011 server tender) have documented corporate successions out to DXC Technology and beyond, leaving only a reported, unconfirmed 2024 selection as a live military-domain item. The resulting BRS of 636 places HPE in Tier B (Severe). Scoring follows the scale-free BDS-1000 method: Impact (I) captures the type of activity, Magnitude (M) its scale, and Proximity (P) its directness to the documented harm; scores are evidence-only and were human-vetted against the four domain audits.

Methodology Note

• All claims in this dossier are sourced exclusively to the four domain audits (Military, Digital, Economic, Political) compiled for HPE; no claim beyond those audits’ evidentiary record is included.
• Where the audits found no public evidence for a given vector (e.g., weapons/munitions supply, heavy machinery, Israel-specific lobbying), this dossier states “No public evidence identified” rather than inferring absence-of-evidence as guilt or innocence.
• Scoring is scale-free: Impact (I) reflects the type of activity, Magnitude (M) its scale, and Proximity (P) its directness/causal closeness to documented harm; domain scores are not simple averages of surface allegation counts.
• A strict temporal rule applies: contracts, facilities, or subsidiaries confirmed divested, terminated, or transferred to another corporate entity (the April 2017 DXC Technology spin-off; the 2022 DXC-to-Ness sale) are treated as mitigated or out-of-scope for HPE from the date of transfer, not as ongoing HPE conduct.
• Entity attribution follows a no-transitive-guilt standard: facts documented for HP Inc., legacy Hewlett-Packard Company, or DXC Technology are excluded from HPE’s score unless the audits establish HPE-specific, current conduct.
• Settlement-adjacent or dual-relevance operations (e.g., historically, the Beitar Illit and Ariel projects) are noted for dual-counting across Economic and Political only where currently attributable to the scored entity; here they are flagged as DXC-attributed and excluded from HPE’s current score.

End Notes