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HP

Consumer ElectronicsHardware & Semiconductors 94 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-08-23 METHOD V4
BDS-1000 Score 644 /1000 B Tier B - Severe
Military ↗ 0.12 Digital ↗ 0.26 Economic ↗ 7.43 Political ↗ 4.00
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Key Findings

  • Economic: HP Inc.’s HP Indigo division maintains major R&D and manufacturing operations in Ness Ziona and Kiryat Gat, including an approximately 11,000-square-metre ink plant; the facilities are within Israel’s internationally recognized borders.1, 2
  • Military / Security: Pre-split Hewlett-Packard held Israeli military IT contracts and developed the Basel biometric checkpoint system; the documented checkpoint system was retired by the Israeli military by the end of 2016, while much of the later government-infrastructure record is attributed to HPE, a separate company after 2015.3, 4
  • Digital: HP Inc. integrated Tel Aviv-headquartered Deep Instinct’s defensive malware-prevention engine into HP Sure Sense commercial notebooks; no public evidence identified of HP Inc. providing AI, offensive cyber, or surveillance systems to Israeli state or military bodies.5
  • Not found: No public evidence identified that HP Inc. currently operates Israeli cloud infrastructure, participates in Project Nimbus, or has direct post-2015 Israeli military or security contracts.6, 7

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameHP Inc.
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.8
HeadquartersNo public evidence identified in the audits.
SectorPersonal systems, printing, industrial digital printing, and related endpoint-security products.5, 9
OwnershipPublicly traded U.S. corporation (NYSE: HPQ); no Israeli sovereign or controlling owner identified. Major institutional holders documented include Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street.10
Key Executives / GovernanceEnrique Lores, Chief Executive Officer, is documented in the audits through public statements. No public evidence identified of current HP Inc. directors or executives with verified Israeli military, settlement-NGO, or pro-Israel-advocacy governing roles.11, 12
Israeli-Nexus SummaryHP Inc. retains a substantial Israeli commercial manufacturing and R&D footprint through HP Indigo; historical occupation-linked technology activities principally concern the pre-2015 Hewlett-Packard Company and successor HPE/DXC entities.1, 4

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

HP Inc.’s most clearly documented contemporary Israel nexus is commercial and economic: its HP Indigo division maintains R&D, manufacturing, test, support, and ink-production operations in Israel. The audit describes facilities in Ness Ziona and Kiryat Gat, an approximately 11,000-square-metre ink plant, and a workforce reported in the range of roughly 2,400–2,500 employees across Israeli facilities. Kiryat Gat and the Indigo facilities identified in the audit are within Israel’s internationally recognized borders, not occupied territory.1, 2

The wider HP corporate lineage has a substantial documented history of Israeli military, checkpoint, population-registry, prison, police, and settlement-linked technology work. Pre-split Hewlett-Packard held Ministry of Defense and IDF IT contracts, and EDS Israel - acquired by HP in 2008 - developed the Basel biometric checkpoint system. However, the audits distinguish these legacy activities from HP Inc.: the Basel system was retired by the Israeli military by the end of 2016, and the post-split contracts and continuing population-registry, police, prison, and biometric-infrastructure activities are principally attributed to HPE, with some services later transferred to DXC Technology.3, 4, 13

HP Inc. has one specifically documented Israeli cybersecurity-product relationship: it integrated Deep Instinct’s deep-learning malware-prevention engine into HP Sure Sense on specified commercial EliteBook and ZBook products. The audit characterizes this as defensive endpoint security and identifies no documented Israeli state or military application. No public evidence identified of HP Inc. providing AI/ML systems, autonomous targeting tools, offensive cyber capabilities, predictive policing, Israeli cloud hosting, or Project Nimbus services.5, 6, 7

The company has been the subject of sustained civil-society boycott and divestment campaigns concerning the historical and successor-company record. HP Inc.’s stated position is that claims about HP Inc. circulated in some BDS material are “untrue,” that it does not take sides in political disputes, and that it adheres to ethical-business standards.14 The record also contains important negative findings: neither HP Inc. nor HPE appears in the most recent September 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database, and no public evidence identified of Israel/Palestine-specific sanctions, regulatory enforcement, or government litigation against HP Inc. or HPE.15, 16

Under the fixed, human-vetted V5.1 assessment supplied for this dossier, HP receives a BRS of 712, placing it in Tier B (Severe Complicity). The score reflects the corpus’s multi-entity, historical, and current economic record while retaining the audits’ attribution limits, discontinued-operation findings, and absence-of-evidence checks.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
1977Indigo was founded in Rehovot, Israel.9
2001Hewlett-Packard acquired Indigo for a reported approximately $829 million.9
2003 / 2008The pre-split HP company’s population-registry work, including the Arbel biometric-ID project, is documented as beginning in this period.13
2005The pre-split company conducted an Ariel settlement “Smart City” pilot involving municipal storage and wireless infrastructure; current status is unknown.4
2008HP acquired EDS, whose Israeli operation had developed the Basel biometric checkpoint system.3
2009The pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company was awarded an Israeli Ministry of Defense contract as exclusive PC/computer-equipment supplier to the military; it also won an Israeli Navy IT-infrastructure and virtualization contract.3
2011HP Israel won a reported NIS 500 million Ministry of Defense tender to manage IDF server farms for 2011–2016.3
2014The exclusive military computer-supply arrangement was renewed for three years, with an option to extend to 2019.3
2015Hewlett-Packard split into HP Inc. and HPE; audits attribute much of the enterprise-government contract record thereafter to HPE.4
End of 2016AFSC records that the Israeli military retired the Basel checkpoint system and replaced it with an in-house-developed system.3
2017–2019The population-registry project passed from HPE/DXC to IBM; the audits separately record continued HPE server-related activity.13
May 2019HP Inc. announced integration of Deep Instinct’s malware-prevention engine into HP Sure Sense on specified commercial notebooks.5
25 May 2021HP Inc. issued its public statement rejecting what it called misinformation concerning HP Inc. and stating that it does not take sides in political disputes.14
15 October 2023CEO Enrique Lores publicly referred to the attacks on Israel and regional humanitarian relief efforts.11
January 2024–December 2026HPE is recorded as providing Israel Police Data Center Care under a contract valued at NIS 4 million annually.17
May 2025–May 2028HPE is recorded as sole supplier of computing infrastructure for Israel’s national biometric-identification system under a NIS 3,129,750 contract.17

Corporate Overview

HP Inc. is the personal-systems and printing successor created in the 2015 division of the former Hewlett-Packard Company. HPE is a separate, publicly traded company focused on enterprise infrastructure, servers, software, and services. This corporate separation is central to attribution: the audits state that the large majority of documented Israeli government, military, settlement, biometric-registry, prison, and police technology relationships are attributed after 2015 to HPE, and in some instances later to DXC Technology, rather than to HP Inc.4, 13

HP Inc.’s documented Israeli operating presence is HP Indigo, its digital-printing division. HP Indigo has R&D and other operations in Ness Ziona and manufacturing in Kiryat Gat, including an ink plant. HP Scitex, another Israeli-origin industrial-printing business, was merged into the HP Indigo division in late 2022/2023, while HP Scitex Ltd. remained recorded as active in the Israeli corporate registry in the audit material.1, 2, 18

The historical corporate lineage also includes settlement-linked activities. The pre-split company operated a Beitar Illit R&D centre from 2008 to 2015 and provided the Ariel Smart City pilot. The audits attribute subsequent Beitar Illit operations to HPE and then DXC; DXC retained that centre after selling EntServ Israel to Ness Technologies in 2022. These are not documented as continuing HP Inc. operations.4, 19

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

The strongest military record concerns the pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company. Audits document a 2009 Ministry of Defense contract making it the exclusive PC/computer-equipment supplier to Israeli military forces, renewed in 2014; an IDF server-farm tender for 2011–2016; Israeli Navy IT infrastructure and virtualization; and printer, maintenance, and server arrangements. The record describes standard commercial PCs, printers, and servers, not dedicated tactical or military-specific hardware.3

EDS Israel developed the Basel biometric access-control system under an Israeli Ministry of Defense tender before EDS was acquired by HP. The system used fingerprint, hand, retinal, and facial biometric data for Palestinian permit-holders and was reported deployed at at least 22 West Bank and Gaza-perimeter checkpoints. The audited record states that responsibility transferred to HPE after the split and that the Israeli military retired Basel at the end of 2016.3, 20

Current security-body infrastructure contracts identified in the audits are HPE - not HP Inc. - contracts, including Israel Police, Israel Prison Service, population-registry server maintenance, and national biometric-identification infrastructure.17 The score therefore captures the documented corporate lineage and successor-company nexus while preserving entity distinctions.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that HP Inc. is legally separate from HPE and that the most significant historic military and checkpoint contracts belong to the pre-split company, with later enterprise-security contracts attributed to HPE or DXC. The Basel system is documented as discontinued; no public evidence identified of a post-2015 HP Inc. renewal of the exclusive IDF computer-supply arrangement.3, 4

No public evidence identified of HP or HPE manufacturing weapons, munitions, missile systems, tactical drones, armoured vehicles, or strategic weapons platforms for Israel. No public evidence identified of dedicated HP tactical/military product lines for Israeli end-users, supply-chain relationships with Israeli defense primes, military-logistics contracts, or HP/HPE inclusion in the Israeli Ministry of Defense SIBAT directory.3, 21

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

HP Inc.’s directly documented Israeli digital relationship is the May 2019 integration of Tel Aviv-headquartered Deep Instinct’s deep-learning anti-malware and ransomware-prevention engine into HP Sure Sense. It was preinstalled on specified EliteBook and ZBook commercial notebooks and marketed as endpoint protection. The audit identifies no Israeli state, military, intelligence, or surveillance deployment of this feature.5

The more serious biometric and government-data systems in the corporate lineage are not attributed to contemporary HP Inc. Basel is attributed to the pre-split company and, after the split, to HPE. The audit states that IBM Israel has operated and upgraded the central population-and-immigration biometric database since 2019, after HPE maintained it; it also records continuing HPE server-related activity.4, 13

HP Inc. does not operate data-centre infrastructure in Israel according to the audit, and Project Nimbus was awarded to Google Cloud and AWS rather than HP Inc. or HPE.6, 7

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of HP Inc. developing, selling, or maintaining offensive cyber capabilities, exploit tools, predictive policing, AI targeting, autonomous decision-support, or Israeli state-surveillance systems. No public evidence identified of HP Inc. operating Israeli sovereign-cloud services or marketing data-sovereignty services to Israeli state or military customers.6

Reporting referenced by the audits concerning an HPE military AI server-farm project could not be traced to a single authoritative primary contract-award document. In any event, it concerns HPE, not HP Inc., and describes infrastructure or compute provision rather than a documented targeting or AI-model contribution.7

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

HP Inc.’s economic nexus is its substantial commercial footprint in Israel through HP Indigo. The audit documents manufacturing and R&D operations in Ness Ziona and Kiryat Gat, the 11,000-square-metre Kiryat Gat ink plant, and an Israeli workforce reported around 2,400–2,500. HP Indigo is characterized as a significant employer and a material printing-segment business.1, 2

HP Indigo was founded in Rehovot in 1977 and acquired in 2001. HP Scitex was merged into the Indigo division in 2022/2023. The audits also identify Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd. as a procurement and distribution entity and report Israel operations as continuing in the latest public material reviewed.9, 10, 18

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The audited HP Indigo locations are within Israel’s internationally recognized borders; no public evidence identified directly linking its Kiryat Gat manufacturing operations to occupied territory. No public evidence identified of agricultural sourcing, settlement-origin product-labelling issues, Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, Israeli-domiciled equity holdings, underwriting of Israeli debt or war bonds, or Israeli-state ownership of HP Inc. or HPE.1, 10

An audit statement that Hewlett Packard appears in the OHCHR settlement database was expressly unverified because the database portal could not be independently checked. The later political audit establishes the contrary current position: neither HP Inc. nor HPE appears in the September 2025 OHCHR update. This dossier relies on that later verified database finding rather than treating the earlier unverified statement as established fact.15

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

HP Inc.’s documented public posture is a 2021 statement rejecting what it called misinformation about HP Inc., saying it does not take sides in political disputes, and asserting ethical-business standards. CEO Enrique Lores’ October 2023 statement described attacks on Israel as horrific, referred to unimaginable loss and uncertainty, and said the HP Foundation was working with humanitarian partners across the region. The located material did not specifically address Palestinian or Gazan civilian harm.11, 14

The audit identifies a contrast with HP’s more detailed Ukraine response: it publicly described grants and named humanitarian partners, suspended Russia shipments, and completed an exit from Russia and Belarus. The disparity in specificity is documented; it is not evidence by itself of a particular political intent.22, 23

The historical Basel system, settlement projects, and government IT work have generated civil-society boycott, shareholder, church, union, and divestment campaigns. UN Special Rapporteur reporting cited in the audits names HP/HPE in describing technology supplied to COGAT, the prison service, police, and biometric-database infrastructure; these are Special Procedures findings, not government sanctions or judicial determinations.13, 24

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

HP Inc.’s direct defence is its stated non-partisanship and denial that BDS-related assertions about HP Inc. are accurate.14 HPE similarly stated in 2018 that its work in Israel was consistent with its values and standards and that it did not take sides in political disputes.25

No public evidence identified of HP or HPE lobbying specifically on Israel/Palestine, BDS legislation, or anti-boycott bills; PAC contributions earmarked for Israel-related causes; donations to named Israeli military, settlement, or advocacy organizations; or free infrastructure support for Israeli state or military efforts during the current conflict. No public evidence identified of formal Israel/Palestine-specific sanctions, regulatory enforcement, or government litigation against HP or HPE.16, 26

HP Inc. and HPE were not included in KLP’s 2021 published list of 16 companies excluded for settlement links, and neither appears in the September 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database update.15, 27

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V5.1.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military5.506.007.504.71
Digital5.403.505.752.22
Economic7.807.308.307.80
Political8.503.509.004.25

V_MAX is driven by the documented scale, continuity, and direct commercial character of HP Inc.’s Israeli manufacturing and R&D footprint through HP Indigo. The other domain results reflect the historical pre-split record and the separately attributable HPE/DXC record, tempered by discontinued contracts, entity separation, unverified reporting, and negative evidence checks. V5.1 is scale-free, evidence-only, and human-vetted; it does not treat allegations as established without documentary support.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-hp-indigo-laying-off-dozens-of-employees-in-israel-1001468218 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. http://www.labelsandlabeling.com/news/inks-coatings/hp-adds-new-ink-manufacturing-plant-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/127?hewlett-packard-hp-and-the-israeli-occupation= ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  4. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hp ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  5. https://www.deepinstinct.com/news/hp-collaborates-with-deep-instinct-to-roll-out-ai-powered-malware-protection-for-next-generation-hp-elitebook-and-zbook-pcs ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  6. https://www.timesofisrael.com/next-gen-printers-put-through-their-paces-at-kiryat-gat-powerhouse-indigo/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://investor.hp.com/governance/board-of-directors/default.aspx ↩

  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Indigo_Division ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  10. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  11. https://x.com/EnriqueJLores/status/1713411137214226508 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721724000013/hpq-20240226.htm ↩

  13. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  14. https://www.hp.com/us-en/newsroom/blogs/2021/hp-statement-on-boycott-divestment-sanctions-campaign.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  15. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database ↩ ↩2

  17. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. https://en.checkid.co.il/company/HP+SCITEX+LTD-MLJgV6d-513726026 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/160 ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/113?the-israeli-ministry-of-defense-expands-hps-biometric-system-in-checkpoints= ↩

  21. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Industries/directory/Pages/default.aspx ↩

  22. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/enriquelores_earlier-today-i-provided-hp-employees-with-activity-6904973159892680704-QA31 ↩

  23. https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/01/hp_turns_back_1b_in/ ↩

  24. https://news.un.org/en/story/2012/10/424432-un-independent-expert-calls-boycott-businesses-profiting-israeli-settlements ↩

  25. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/hewlett-packard-enterprise-responds-to-allegations-linking-its-products-to-war-crimes/ ↩ ↩2

  26. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/hp-inc/summary?id=D000000716 ↩

  27. https://www.klp.no/en/press-room/why-klp-is-excluding-16-companies-following-un-report ↩