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DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-08-23
Digital Score 0.26 /10 B HP - BDS-1000 644
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Scope note: In 2015 the original Hewlett-Packard Company split into two independent, separately-traded entities - HP Inc. (personal systems and printing, including HP Indigo) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (enterprise infrastructure, servers, software, and services). Available sourcing indicates that the large majority of documented settlement-, military-, and biometric-registry-linked contracts (the Basel checkpoint system, population-registry projects, prison and police IT) transferred to HPE, and in some cases onward to DXC Technology after 2017, rather than remaining with HP Inc. Findings below are attributed to the specific entity where the research memo specifies it; where sourcing is ambiguous, that ambiguity is stated explicitly rather than resolved by assumption.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

HP Inc’s own endpoint-security product line, HP Wolf Security, is built substantially on Bromium, a US (California)-founded firm HP acquired in September 2019 - not an Israeli-origin technology 1, 2. No public evidence identified of HP Inc holding direct licensing, subscription, or integration relationships with Israeli cybersecurity vendors such as Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, or Claroty. Following the 2015 corporate split, the large majority of documented enterprise- and government-facing technology-vendor relationships in Israel are attributed to HPE as a separate legal entity rather than to HP Inc 3, 4, 5. HPE subsequently made two sizable Israeli-origin cybersecurity and cloud-data-protection acquisitions: Axis Security, a Tel Aviv-based cloud security-service-edge provider acquired for roughly $400 million in March 2023 6, and Zerto, a Herzliya/Boston-based cloud-data-protection firm acquired for $374 million in cash in 2021 7. HP Inc does, however, hold one documented embedded-technology relationship with an Israeli cybersecurity vendor outside that list: from May 2019 it integrated the deep-learning malware- and ransomware-prevention engine of Tel Aviv-headquartered Deep Instinct directly into HP Sure Sense, pre-installed on the HP EliteBook 800 G6 series and the HP ZBook 14u and 15u commercial notebook lines and marketed on a detection rate for known and unknown malware of greater than 99.9 percent 8, 9, 10. This is a named, embedded component of HP Inc’s flagship commercial endpoint-security offering rather than a general IT-vendor or reseller relationship 8, 9. No public evidence identified of named systems integrators mandating or recommending Israeli-origin technology specifically for HP Inc’s own internal IT programmes.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified that HP Inc currently uses, sells, or integrates retail facial-recognition, gait-analysis, or biometric-identification technology from vendors such as Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, or Trax. Historically, the pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company was the system integrator for the Basel System, a biometric access-control system using fingerprint, hand, retinal, and facial-recognition scanning for Palestinian permit-holders at West Bank and Gaza checkpoints, developed through EDS Israel (later HP Enterprise Services Israel) beginning in 1999/2004, with an Israeli Ministry of Defense maintenance contract confirmed through December 31, 2017 11, 12, 13. Who Profits and AFSC attribute continued operation of this checkpoint-biometrics function, after the 2015 split, to HPE rather than to HP Inc 11, 14. On the separate central biometric database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority, the UN Special Rapporteur’s A/HRC/59/23 records that IBM Israel has operated and upgraded that database since 2019, “enabling collection, storage and governmental use of biometric data on Palestinians, and supporting the discriminatory permit regime of Israel,” and that “[b]efore IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) maintained the database and its Israeli subsidiary is still providing servers” 15. No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin predictive-policing, sentiment-analysis, or workforce-surveillance tools used by HP Inc specifically, and No public evidence identified of indirect or bundled delivery of Israeli surveillance technology through HP Inc managed services.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

HP Inc does not operate data-centre infrastructure in Israel; its Israel footprint is manufacturing and R&D through HP Indigo rather than cloud or data hosting 16, 17, 18. Project Nimbus, Israel’s roughly $1.2 billion sovereign-cloud programme, was awarded exclusively to Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services in 2021, and neither HP Inc nor HPE is a party to that contract 19, 20. HPE - again a separate legal entity from HP Inc since 2015 - was reportedly selected around July 2024 to build a military AI server-farm project for the Israeli defense establishment, described in press coverage as a multi-tens-of-millions-of-shekels, partly underground compute facility; this reporting could not be traced to a single authoritative primary contract-award document 21, 22. Separately, in the commercial Israeli data-centre market, Israeli business press reported that HPE had been selected to operate a server farm under construction in Kfar Sava by the firm Serverz; the distinct NED underground server-farm project in Netanya’s Poleg industrial zone, led by former Microsoft Israel head Shelly Landsmann with the Levinstein Group and UK firm Goldacre, is not reported as an HPE project 23. No public evidence identified that HP Inc itself markets or contracts services explicitly for Israeli state or military “data sovereignty” or resilience needs.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

The pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company was reportedly the exclusive personal-computer supplier to Israeli military and security forces under a 2009 Israeli Ministry of Defense contract, renewed in 2014 for three years with an option through 2019; no evidence was located confirming any renewal after that period, and AFSC states it is unclear what company, if any, currently holds exclusive IDF computer-supply status 24. The same pre-split company managed internet server farms for the Israeli Ministry of Defense and army between 2011 and 2016 and won a 2009 virtualization-project military pilot 24. It also reportedly provided IT and server infrastructure used by the Israeli Navy in enforcing the Gaza blockade in effect since 2007 24, 25. The Basel biometric checkpoint system remains the most specifically documented dual-use surveillance deployment tied to the corporate lineage, attributed to the pre-split company and carried forward under HPE after 2015 11, 12. No public evidence identified of HP Inc, as the post-2015 entity, developing, selling, or maintaining offensive cyber capabilities or exploit tools for Israeli state actors. A 2024 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre survey of 104 technology companies found HPE - not HP Inc - among only four respondents that addressed OPT/Israel operations; HPE reported a formal human-rights policy with enhanced due diligence for conflict areas and an active grievance mechanism, and stated it had received no grievances regarding its OPT/Israel operations, while the briefing separately noted a stark disparity between HPE’s far higher engagement on a comparable Ukraine survey and the roughly 4 percent sector-wide response rate on the OPT survey 26.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

No public evidence identified that HP Inc has provided AI/ML, computer-vision, or autonomous decision-support systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies; HP Inc’s identified AI-branded products (Copilot+ PCs, on-device NPUs) are consumer/enterprise hardware features with no documented Israeli state or military application. No public evidence identified of HP Inc AI models trained on, or given access to, civilian population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets from Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories. No public evidence identified of HP Inc providing autonomous target-generation or automated threat-detection systems. The only documented AI or machine-learning system with a specific, named Israeli-origin nexus in HP Inc’s product line is the Deep Instinct deep-learning malware-prevention engine embedded in HP Sure Sense on commercial EliteBook and ZBook notebooks, a defensive endpoint-security function with no documented Israeli state or military application 8, 9. The HPE-linked defense AI server-farm project reported for 2024 is, on available sourcing, an infrastructure/compute-provision matter rather than a documented AI-model or targeting-system contribution, and in any case involves HPE rather than HP Inc 21, 22.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

HP Indigo, HP Inc’s digital-printing division, was founded in Israel in 1977 and acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2001 for a reported $829 million 17, 5. It remains a current, ongoing, and major HP Inc operation, with R&D, test labs, and customer support based in Rehovot/Ness Ziona and manufacturing - including a dedicated ink plant of roughly 11,000 square metres - based on a roughly 56,000-square-metre campus in Kiryat Gat 16, 27, 28. Combined Israel operations have been reported at between roughly 600 employees (Kiryat Gat site alone) and 2,400–3,000 employees across various years 16, 17. HP Indigo signed what Israeli trade press described as the largest deal in its history, worth hundreds of millions of shekels, with long-time customer Shutterfly, reported on March 26, 2026, and explicitly noted by that outlet as concluded “in the midst of the war” 29. HP Inc also previously acquired Scitex Vision, an Israeli wide-format printing technology firm whose operations and naming rights it took on in 2005 30. HP Tech Ventures, HP Inc’s corporate venture arm founded in 2016, maintains a presence and venture partner in Tel Aviv investing in Israeli-origin early-stage startups across sectors including industrial print, edtech, publishing, and microfluidics/healthcare, alongside its global portfolio, reported at 37 companies as of June 2025 31, 32, 33. No public evidence identified of a formal, named patent-licensing or co-development arrangement between HP Inc and Technion, Hebrew University, or the Weizmann Institute. Separately, the pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company operated a development center in Beitar Illit, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, from approximately 2008 to 2015; Who Profits and AFSC attribute continued operation of that facility after the split to HPE and, from 2017, to DXC Technology 24, 11, 3. The pre-split company also ran a pilot “Smart City” project in the Ariel settlement in 2005 involving disaster-resilient municipal storage and wireless internet, and is separately described as having provided services or technologies to the Modi’in Illit settlement 24, 11.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Who Profits, an Israeli research NGO, has published multiple dedicated reports tracking HP’s occupation-linked activities, including report #127 on Hewlett Packard and the Israeli occupation 11, report #124 on the 2015 corporate split’s effect on occupation-linked contracts 3, report #137 summarizing findings to date 34, and report #157 together with a standing company profile addressing HPE’s current involvement 4, 14. AFSC Investigate maintains separate dedicated profiles for HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, stating that HP Inc, as legal successor to the original Hewlett-Packard Company, has a legal obligation to remedy harms created by its predecessor but, per available evidence, “is no longer involved in these activities,” while documenting extensive legacy allegations spanning the Basel checkpoint system, population-registry projects, prison-system IT, the Beitar Illit R&D center, and the Ariel Smart City pilot 24, 12. The BDS movement runs an active “Boycott HP” campaign targeting HP Inc and HPE jointly, citing Basel-system checkpoint biometrics and Israeli Navy Gaza-blockade IT support, with updates issued after October 2023 framing continued complicity amid the Gaza war 35, 25, 36. Kairos Response and the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) run parallel boycott campaigns citing the same checkpoint allegations; Kairos documents a 2016 Presbyterian Church (USA) divestment vote from HP over occupation-related concerns, and HP’s own prior response characterized the Basel system as reducing “friction” at checkpoints rather than substantively rebutting the underlying allegations 37, 38, 39, 12, 13. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, in report A/HRC/59/23 (submitted around July 2025), states that “HP has long enabled Israel’s apartheid systems, supplying technology to COGAT, the prison service and police” and that since HP’s 2015 split, “opaque business structures have obscured the roles of their seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries” 15, 40. BDS Movement and the Law4Palestine companies database both cite HP among the entities named in that UN report 41, 42. A related OHCHR Special Procedures individual communication file addressed specifically to “The Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)” exists in the public communications database, though its full content could not be independently reviewed in this audit 43. HP Inc CEO Enrique Lores issued a public statement on October 9, 2023 condemning “the horrific attacks on Israel” and expressing that his “heart breaks for all who are facing unimaginable loss,” referencing HP Foundation engagement with humanitarian partners “throughout the region”; the located excerpt addressed Israeli civilian suffering specifically and did not reference Palestinian or Gazan civilian harm 44. HP Inc’s Form 10-K filings acknowledge the Israel-Hamas conflict generically within a broader global-conflict and geopolitical risk-factor category rather than as a company-specific disclosure 18, 45. No public evidence identified of formal regulatory inquiries, OECD National Contact Point complaints, or export-control/sanctions investigations specifically naming HP Inc, as distinct from the pre-split company or HPE, regarding Israel-related technology sales. Two earlier Israel-specific corporate controversies are on record for the pre-split company and for HPE. In February 2006 Hewlett-Packard opened an investigation into its Israeli unit over suspected “gray exports” of HP equipment, including servers, sold into markets covered by other HP subsidiaries; HP Israel’s April 2006 server sales fell roughly 40 percent year on year in the fallout, and HP Israel chief executive Gil Rosenfeld - dismissed in March 2006 - was subsequently found by HP not to have been involved in or aware of the gray exports and left the company 46, 47. In July 2017 HPE agreed to pay Israel’s tax authority approximately NIS 1.6 billion (about $450 million) following international arbitration over the intellectual property acquired in HP’s 2006 purchase of the Israeli software company Mercury Interactive and its 2009 transfer out of Israel 48. On occupation-linked IT services, Who Profits records that DXC Technology - formed in 2017 from the merger of HPE’s services division with Computer Sciences Corporation, and the entity that retained a portion of Hewlett-Packard’s occupation-related Israeli contracts through its subsidiary EntServ Israel - sold EntServ Israel to Ness of the Hilan Group for $65 million in April 2022, with EntServ employees having been stationed at the Israeli Civil Administration headquarters in the West Bank settlement of Beit El; Who Profits states that DXC nonetheless retained its R&D centre in the settlement of Beitar Illit after that sale 49. Separately, two individuals with prior Hewlett-Packard Company executive tenure predating the 2015 split - Thomas E. Hogan and Troy K. Richardson - now hold senior governance roles at Cellebrite, a company associated with forensic/surveillance technology; neither is a confirmed current HP Inc executive or board member, so this is noted only as an alumni-network data point rather than a controlling-principal finding, alongside HP Inc’s current board composition as disclosed in its proxy statement 50, 51, 52.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/hp-purchases-security-startup-bromium ↩

  2. https://www.techradar.com/news/hp-bolsters-endpoint-security-capabilities-with-bromium-acquisition ↩

  3. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/124 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/157 ↩ ↩2

  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_Israel ↩ ↩2

  6. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rk11mwd0ai ↩

  7. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hewlett-packard-enterprise-buys-israels-zerto-to-expand-cloud-data-protection/ ↩

  8. 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

  9. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hp-to-install-israeli-cybersecurity-software-in-next-generation-computers/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-hp-teams-with-deep-instinct-on-cybersecurity-1001287417 ↩

  11. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/127 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/hp-spins-israeli-checkpoints-role-reducing-friction-palestinians ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-solidarity-campaigners-target-hp/18236 ↩ ↩2

  14. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2

  15. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2

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

  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Indigo_Division ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/47217/000004721724000080/hpq-20241031.htm ↩ ↩2

  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus ↩

  20. https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/ ↩

  21. https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-883855 ↩ ↩2

  22. https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/02/17/will-israels-ai-supercomputer-spill-sensitive-secrets-red-flags-mount/ ↩ ↩2

  23. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-former-microsoft-israel-head-in-netanya-server-farm-project-1001483092 ↩

  24. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hp ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  25. https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp ↩ ↩2

  26. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/tech-sector-opt-analysis-2024/ ↩

  27. https://www.labelsandlabeling.com/news/inks-coatings/hp-adds-new-ink-manufacturing-plant-israel ↩

  28. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-653599 ↩

  29. https://techtime.news/2026/03/26/hp-indigo-2/ ↩

  30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scitex_Vision ↩

  31. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-hp-launches-investment-arm-in-us-israel-1001123733 ↩

  32. https://developers.hp.com/public/blog/hp-launches-tech-ventures-group-invest-startups ↩

  33. https://hptechventures.com/team/ ↩

  34. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/137 ↩

  35. https://bdsmovement.net/news/civil-society-organizations-around-world-urge-hp-companies-end-all-involvement-violations ↩

  36. https://bdsmovement.net/BoycottHP-GazaGenocide-Update ↩

  37. https://www.cjpme.org/fs_247 ↩

  38. https://www.kairosresponse.org/why_boycott_hp.html ↩

  39. https://www.kairosresponse.org/companies_in_isr_settlemnts.html ↩

  40. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/ ↩

  41. https://bdsmovement.net/news/naming-complicity ↩

  42. https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Database-of-Companies-Named-in-the-UN-Special-Rapporteurs-Report-on-the-Economy-of-Occupation-and-Genocide.pdf ↩

  43. https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=26183 ↩

  44. https://x.com/EnriqueJLores/status/1713411137214226508 ↩

  45. https://s203.q4cdn.com/918857832/files/doc_financials/2025/ar/2025-Form-10-K.pdf ↩

  46. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2006-05-24/ty-article/hp-israels-april-server-sales-tumbled-40-yoy-after-gray-export-scandal/0000017f-e7cd-df2c-a1ff-ffdd51980000 ↩

  47. https://www.eetimes.com/update-export-controversy-rocks-hps-israeli-unit/ ↩

  48. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2017-07-20/ty-article/hpe-to-pay-israel-450m-in-tax-over-2006-acquisition/0000017f-f625-d318-afff-f7677f340000 ↩

  49. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/160 ↩

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

  51. https://cellebrite.com/en/resources/press-releases/cellebrite-appoints-thomas-e-hogan-as-executive-chairman-of-the-board/ ↩

  52. https://investors.cellebrite.com/news-releases/news-release-details/cellebrite-appoints-tech-veteran-troy-k-richardson-board/ ↩