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ServiceNow POLITICAL

POLITICAL AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-30
Political Score 8.26 /10 B ServiceNow - BDS-1000 729
Political 8.26

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Corporate Communications & Public Stance

On ServiceNow’s Q3 2023 earnings call, chairman and CEO Bill McDermott opened with a statement about the 7 October attacks. He identified ServiceNow employee Shlomi Sividia as having been killed at the Supernova festival, expressed solidarity with the company’s Israel team and families, and also described a humanitarian crisis affecting millions in both Israel and Gaza. He said the company’s concern extended to innocent people on all sides and invoked a peaceful future for the region.1 The statement therefore included explicit recognition of Palestinian/Gaza civilian suffering; the retrieved record does not support characterizing ServiceNow as publicly silent about Gaza at that point.

ServiceNow’s 2023 annual report likewise discussed the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza as a business-risk issue and said customers in the affected regions represented an immaterial portion of consolidated revenue and net assets.2

For comparative posture, ServiceNow also participated in concrete Ukraine-related humanitarian support. In April 2023 it joined UNHCR, UNICC, BT and Thirdera to provide cloud technology for regional call centres supporting refugees from Ukraine in Hungary and Poland.3 In 2024 ServiceNow described broader humanitarian/nonprofit work including support for the International Rescue Committee.4 The evidence therefore shows public/humanitarian engagement with more than one conflict rather than a simple Ukraine-versus-Gaza silence comparison.

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

ServiceNow has a substantial Israeli corporate and R&D presence. SEC records list ServiceNow A.B. Israel 2012 Ltd as an Israeli subsidiary, and current careers pages show active Israeli hiring.5, 6 IVC identifies the local operation as an R&D centre and records multiple acquisitions that expanded it.7

No public evidence identified in the retrievable material of a ServiceNow office, named customer, sponsorship, political event or corporate donation located specifically in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, East Jerusalem or Golan Heights. No retrieved source documents a ServiceNow endorsement of settlement expansion.

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

ServiceNow is an enterprise-software provider rather than a consumer social-media or retail-content platform. The reviewed 2025 and 2026 proxy statements do not present an Israel/Palestine shareholder proposal among the matters submitted for a shareholder vote.8, 9 That observation is limited to those proxy materials and is not evidence that no shareholder or employee concern was ever raised outside the proxy process.

Focused searches did not identify a retrievable report of ServiceNow dismissing, disciplining or suing employees for pro-Palestinian speech, or of an internal content-moderation policy suppressing Palestinian material. No public evidence identified of a ServiceNow retail policy discriminating between Israel and Palestinian territories.

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

ServiceNow is a U.S. company but has maintained an Israeli development operation for more than a decade. The 2020 Loom Systems acquisition added another Israel-based development team, while current IVC and careers records show the continuing local engineering footprint.7, 10, 5 In 2026 the company expanded materially through acquisitions including Armis, Traceloop, ai.work and Sweep.11, 12, 13, 14

The $7.75 billion Armis acquisition closed on 20 April 2026 and brought the Armis team into ServiceNow.11 Armis co-founder Nadir Izrael previously served in Unit 8200, and American Technion Society says Izrael and co-founder Yevgeny Dibrov met while serving in elite IDF technological units.15, 16 Those military-service biographies establish personal background, not a current political endorsement or corporate donation by ServiceNow.

No public evidence identified of ServiceNow sponsoring a settlement political event, joining an anti-BDS advocacy organisation, or publicly endorsing Israeli annexation or settlement policy.

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

ServiceNow undertook several forms of Israel-related support after 7 October 2023. Calcalist reported that the company would give each employee at its Israeli development centre a $1,500 grant, had donated $200,000 to Magen David Adom and International Medical Corps, and had sent more than 50 laptops to children evacuated from southern communities.17 Globes independently reported the $1,500 employee grant and the $200,000 donations to Magen David Adom and International Medical Corps, describing the grant as intended to support employee mental health and day-to-day needs during the war.18

A separate Geektime report said ServiceNow also donated tents and fleeces to soldiers on Mount Hermon while using routine office-purchasing budget for donations to evacuees.19 This is the only retrieved source that specifies the military recipients, so the fact should be treated as single-source reporting rather than broadened into a claim of direct funding to the IDF as an institution. The item is nevertheless distinct from the company’s medical/humanitarian donations and employee grant because the reported recipients were soldiers.

No public evidence identified in the retrievable set of a ServiceNow corporate donation to Friends of the IDF, JNF/KKL, a settlement organisation, Regavim, Im Tirtzu or an Israeli reservist fundraising organisation. No retrieved evidence identified ServiceNow lobbying for anti-BDS legislation or making a corporate political contribution specifically tied to Israel/Palestine policy.

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

ServiceNow’s primary business is enterprise workflow software. Its Israeli subsidiary and R&D centre form part of the operating group, and the April 2026 Armis closing materially enlarged that Israeli technology footprint.11, 5, 6 The company then announced an integrated security offering that combines ServiceNow with Armis and Veza capabilities, demonstrating that Armis was not held as a passive investment after closing.20

This structural integration matters for attribution of post-closing conduct, but it does not make every pre-acquisition statement or act by Armis or its founders a ServiceNow corporate act.

Executive & Leadership Footprint

McDermott’s October 2023 statement is the clearest retrieved senior-leadership communication on the conflict: solidarity with ServiceNow’s Israel team alongside an explicit reference to humanitarian suffering in Israel and Gaza.1

Following the 2026 Armis acquisition, the acquired cyber business and staff joined ServiceNow.11 Biographical sources document Nadir Izrael’s Unit 8200 service and the two Armis founders’ prior service in elite IDF technological units.15, 16 no public evidence identified in the bounded review of those biographies or current ServiceNow leadership records of a ServiceNow controlling principal serving on the board of an Israeli defence prime, donating personally through a disclosed corporate matching vehicle to FIDF, or holding a leadership role in a settlement organisation.

ServiceNow continued expanding its Israel technology footprint after the July 2024 ICJ advisory opinion and November 2024 ICC warrants, including 2026 acquisitions and current local hiring.11, 5, 12, 13, 14 Those are corporate investment/operational facts. The retrieved evidence does not establish that the acquisitions were undertaken to support a political or military objective.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2023/10/26/servicenow-now-q3-2023-earnings-call-transcript/ ↩ ↩2

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1373715/000137371524000030/now-20231231.htm ↩

  3. https://newsroom.servicenow.com/overview/press-releases/details/2023/UNHCR-partners-with-UNICC-and-leading-industry-experts-to-bring-cloud-based-technology-to-call-centres-for-refugees-from-Ukraine-in-Hungary-and-Poland-04-12-2023-12-00-AM/default.aspx ↩

  4. https://newsroom.servicenow.com/press-releases/details/2024/ServiceNow-demonstrates-commitment-to-building-a-better-world-expands-access-to-technology-knowledge-and-opportunity-09-23-2024-traffic/default.aspx ↩

  5. https://careers.servicenow.com/locations/emea/israel/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1373715/000137371525000010/now-20241231xex211.htm ↩ ↩2

  7. https://www.ivc-online.com/Google-Card?id=451A1502-F672-E411-B8A5-80C16E7D3630 ↩ ↩2

  8. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1373715/000137371525000110/now-20250404.htm ↩

  9. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1373715/000137371526000039/now-20260406.htm ↩

  10. https://newsroom.servicenow.com/press-releases/details/2020/ServiceNow-to-Acquire-Loom-Systems-01-22-2020-12-00-AM/default.aspx ↩

  11. https://investor.servicenow.com/news/news-details/2026/ServiceNow-completes-Armis-acquisition-closing-the-gap-between-asset-visibility-and-cyber-risk/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjghwiqf11e ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjckic7qze ↩ ↩2

  14. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r19lbzwdfx ↩ ↩2

  15. https://www.securityweek.com/contributors/nadir-izrael/ ↩ ↩2

  16. https://ats.org/our-impact/from-the-army-to-the-technion-to-a-7-75-billion-exit/ ↩ ↩2

  17. https://www.calcalist.co.il/local_news/article/r1ybytfwa ↩

  18. https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001467358 ↩

  19. https://www.geektime.co.il/the-tech-industry-leads-volunteers-and-raises-funds/ ↩

  20. https://newsroom.servicenow.com/press-releases/details/2026/ServiceNow-launches-Autonomous-Security - Risk-integrating-Armis-and-Veza-to-govern-every-AI-agent-identity-and-connected-asset/default.aspx ↩