Audit Phase: V-ECON
Target Entity: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE)
Prepared: 2026-05-01
Basis: Research memo findings drawn from verified training-data knowledge through April 2026; SEC filings, NGO research databases, Israeli business press, and regulatory records as cited.
HPE is an enterprise technology company whose commercial operations span servers, networking hardware, storage arrays, cloud services, and IT consulting. It does not operate in fresh produce retail, food service, or agricultural commodity trading. No public evidence identified of any commercial relationship with Israeli agricultural aggregators, including Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, Galilee Export, Agrexco or its successors, or any procurement of Medjool dates, avocados, citrus, fresh herbs, or potatoes.126
No public evidence identified of a subsidiary, joint venture, or import entity structured to receive Israeli-origin agricultural goods, nor of seasonal agricultural sourcing windows from Israeli suppliers.12 HPE’s import and export activity relates to hardware (servers, networking equipment, storage arrays) and software licensing.1
HPE’s global hardware supply chain involves semiconductor components, optical modules, memory, and storage media sourced from a diversified international supplier base. HPE does not disaggregate component-level country-of-origin detail in its SEC filings to a level that would identify Israeli-origin semiconductor or optical component exposure.12 Israeli semiconductor and fabless design activity (e.g., Mellanox, acquired by NVIDIA; Marvell Israel operations) intersects with the broader enterprise networking supply chain, but No public evidence identified of HPE holding direct primary-supplier relationships with Israeli-domiciled component manufacturers as a named line item in procurement disclosures.12
No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin food products or consumer goods reaching any HPE-operated commercial channel via third-party distributors or white-label arrangements.6 NGO profiles from Who Profits and AFSC Investigate do not identify supply-chain sourcing of agricultural goods as a concern area for HPE; documented concerns relate entirely to technology systems and government contracts.56
No public evidence identified of HPE goods labeled “Produce of Israel,” “Made in Israel,” or any analogous consumer country-of-origin labeling issue in the context of occupied territory provenance. HPE does not sell food, agricultural, or consumer retail products subject to produce-labeling regimes.12
Who Profits and AFSC Investigate do not raise settlement-origin product labeling issues against HPE. Their documented concerns relate exclusively to technology systems, IT infrastructure contracts, and biometric data systems (addressed in the Operational Presence and Corporate Structure sections below).56
No public evidence identified of DEFRA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or equivalent regulatory citations against HPE regarding country-of-origin labeling, misdescription of goods, or settlement-origin compliance failures.16
HPE’s ESG and Living Progress reporting addresses human rights due diligence in its supply chain but does not reference occupied territory product labeling or any policy framework governing procurement of physical goods from contested geographic zones.12 The absence of such a policy reflects HPE’s product category rather than a documented evasion of applicable regimes.
HPE maintains operational infrastructure in Israel, including offices and personnel, operating under its EMEA regional structure. Israeli operations are not separately capitalized or disclosed as a standalone foreign direct investment line item in HPE’s SEC filings.122 HPE has not disclosed a dedicated factory, data center, or logistics hub acquired within Israel or the occupied territories as a named capital investment line in its FY2023 or FY2024 Form 10-K filings.12 The scale of physical asset investment in Israel is not separately itemized in any public disclosure; the Israeli operation appears consistent with a regional sales, pre-sales, and technical support presence augmented by R&D staff.232
HPE operates research and development activity in Israel consistent with its broader EMEA technology strategy. Israeli technology press (Globes, Calcalist) has reported on HPE Israel-based teams engaged in cloud, security, and networking R&D, including work connected to the Aruba Networks and Juniper Networks product lines.2021 HPE’s Israel R&D presence predates the November 2015 separation from HP Inc. and has continued post-separation.20
HPE’s January 2024 announcement of the acquisition of Juniper Networks added Juniper’s documented Israel R&D operations to HPE’s portfolio.1118 The post-acquisition integration of Juniper Israel into HPE’s structure and any associated Israeli government contracts through Juniper have not been fully documented in available public records as of the research date.11
No publicly disclosed Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) grant approvals specific to HPE’s Israel entity were identified in publicly accessible IIA records as of 2024.14 Such arrangements are common for multinational R&D subsidiaries operating in Israel under the IIA’s preferred enterprise frameworks, but individual subsidiary approvals are not consistently published in English-language public records, and IIA Preferred Technology Enterprise (PTE) status for HPE Israel cannot be confirmed or excluded from available data.14
HPE is an independent publicly traded corporation (NYSE: HPE), incorporated in Delaware, USA, formed through the November 2015 separation of Hewlett-Packard Company.12 As of FY2024, largest institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street, none of which constitute a controlling beneficial owner with Israel-specific investment mandates material to this audit.32 No private equity sponsor or Israel-domiciled controlling shareholder has been identified.3
No public evidence identified of HPE holding Israeli sovereign bonds, Israel-focused investment funds, or material portfolio positions in Israeli-domiciled companies as disclosed treasury or investment holdings in HPE’s SEC filings.122
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (Norges Bank Investment Management / NBIM) maintains a published exclusion and observation list for ethical and conduct-based reasons.15 No public evidence identified of HPE’s inclusion on NBIM’s exclusion list as of 2024. The BDS Movement has maintained a long-running campaign targeting Hewlett-Packard and, post-2015, HPE, on the basis of documented technology contracts with Israeli government and military entities.7 No major sovereign wealth fund exclusion of HPE specifically on Israeli-nexus grounds has been confirmed in available records.
HPE maintains a physical office presence in Israel, operated under its EMEA regional structure. The Israeli office is located in the greater Tel Aviv area (Ra’anana / Petah Tikva technology corridor), consistent with the longstanding HP/HPE commercial presence in Israel dating to the pre-split HP era.2320
No public evidence identified of HPE offices, sales operations, warehouses, or any operational presence in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.56 Who Profits does not list HPE among companies with direct settlement-based physical operations in its most recent company profile.5 The nature of enterprise cloud and IT services delivery (remote licensing, software-as-a-service, GreenLake managed services) means that geographic restriction to settlement territories is inherently difficult to document from public records, and this limitation is acknowledged.56
Israeli business press (Globes, Calcalist) has covered HPE GreenLake cloud service launches and partner ecosystem activity in Israel between 2022 and 2024, indicating active commercial engagement including channel partner programs and value-added reseller relationships with Israeli system integrators.2019 HPE PointNext professional services are offered in Israel through this partner network.19 This commercial activity is consistent with HPE’s status as an established multinational IT vendor in the Israeli market but does not constitute a strategic market designation at the investor-disclosure level.12
This is the area of greatest documented concern in available NGO and advocacy records:
Biometric Population Registry (BioMOS / Basel system): Who Profits has documented that HP supplied the biometric population registry system used by the Israeli Ministry of Interior for Palestinian ID management, including in the occupied West Bank, from approximately 2002 onward.513 This relationship and its continuation status under HPE post-2015 is documented in multiple Who Profits editions through 2023.5 Discontinuation of this relationship has not been confirmed in available public records.513
Checkpoint infrastructure: War on Want and Who Profits documented HP’s role in providing computing and printing technology used at Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank.13 These findings originate pre-2020 and discontinuation has not been confirmed in the most recent Who Profits or AFSC profiles.56
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) IT infrastructure: AFSC Investigate lists HPE as having commercial relationships with Israeli defense and security sector customers, characterizing it as a technology provider with documented ties to Israeli defense and border control systems.624 PAX Netherlands’ June 2024 report on companies arming Israel and their financiers includes references to HPE in the context of its technology relationships with Israeli security entities.9
Israeli government procurement: Israeli Government Procurement Authority records indicate HP/HPE has participated in public procurement tenders for Israeli government IT infrastructure.22 The specific scope of active contracts as of 2024 is not fully disclosed in publicly accessible records; the Israeli government procurement portal (mr.gov.il) is only partially indexed in available sources.22
UN OHCHR Business Database (HRC Res. 31/36 / 53/25): The publicly available 2020 UN OHCHR database of enterprises involved in settlement activities (covering 112 companies) did not include Hewlett Packard Enterprise by name in the version available in training data.4 Whether subsequent updates (2022, 2023) have added HPE cannot be confirmed without live database access.4
HPE does not disclose country-level headcount for Israel in its public SEC filings or ESG reports.112 Estimates from Israeli technology industry sources suggest HPE Israel employs between several dozen and a low-hundreds headcount, consistent with a combined sales, pre-sales, technical support, and R&D operation.2021 HPE Israel is registered as a legal entity under Israeli corporate law and is therefore subject to Israeli corporate tax on locally generated income, though no specific tax contribution data is publicly disclosed.21
HPE was incorporated in Delaware, USA, and began independent operations on 1 November 2015 following the separation of Hewlett-Packard Company into HPE and HP Inc.12 HPE is not an Israeli-founded company. Its heritage traces to Hewlett-Packard Company, founded in 1939 in Palo Alto, California.1 HPE’s Israel operations are inherited from Hewlett-Packard’s pre-2015 commercial presence in Israel, which itself dates to at least the 1990s.1320
Who Profits and AFSC Investigate characterize HP/HPE as a significant and long-standing technology supplier to Israeli government and military entities.56 The documented historical structural ties include:
The UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23 (Francesca Albanese, 2 July 2025), titled “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide,” addresses the role of technology companies in supporting Israeli occupation infrastructure.10 This report postdates training data coverage, and HPE-specific references, if any, cannot be confirmed from available data.10
No public evidence identified of Israeli state ownership stake in HPE, government-appointed board representatives, golden shares, or charter restrictions tying HPE’s governance or mission to Israeli state policy objectives.132
The BDS Movement has maintained a long-running formal campaign targeting Hewlett-Packard and, post-separation, both HPE and HP Inc., on the basis of the biometric registry, checkpoint computing, and government/military IT relationships described above.7 This campaign has been documented across multiple years and has been picked up by advocacy organizations including War on Want and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK.25 These campaigns do not themselves constitute factual findings but represent constructive notice of the documented technology relationships.
HPE does not disclose Israel-specific revenue in its SEC filings. Revenue is reported at segment level (Hybrid Cloud, Intelligent Edge, Financial Services, Corporate Investments) and at three broad geographic bands (Americas, EMEA, APJ) in aggregate, with no country-level breakdowns disclosed.122 No public evidence identified of Israel-attributed revenue in any HPE investor communication or regulatory filing.2
As a Delaware-incorporated, US-headquartered publicly traded company, HPE’s global profits flow to its US parent entity and are distributed to shareholders worldwide via dividends and share repurchases. No Israel-domiciled beneficial owner structure that would route profits into Israeli-controlled entities has been identified in SEC filings or proxy disclosures.132 HPE Israel’s locally generated profits (from Israeli sales and services) are subject to Israeli corporate taxation and are consolidated upward into HPE’s global accounts. No public disclosure of the quantum of Israeli-origin profit exists.12
Who Profits characterizes HP/HPE as a significant technology supplier to the Israeli government, military, and security apparatus, making it a material contributor to Israeli state IT infrastructure capacity over an extended documented period.513 AFSC Investigate similarly characterizes HPE as a technology provider with documented ties to Israeli defense and border control systems.624 Israeli business media characterizes HPE as one of the established multinational technology vendors with a long-standing commercial ecosystem presence in Israel, encompassing partner relationships with Israeli value-added resellers, system integrators, and channel distributors.2021
HPE’s channel partner and PointNext services ecosystem in Israel generates economic activity through Israeli-domiciled intermediary firms, contributing indirectly to Israeli technology sector employment and tax revenues beyond HPE’s own direct headcount.1921
No public evidence identified of an official Israeli government or industry body designation of HPE as “critical national infrastructure” or a formal “sector anchor” in regulatory terms.14
HPE’s global tax disclosures in its Form 10-K do not include country-by-country public reporting at the level of individual markets such as Israel.12 No public evidence of aggressive transfer pricing structures specifically routing profits from Israeli operations through low-tax intermediaries has been identified in available records.
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https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/israeli-settlements/database-business-enterprises ↩↩
https://whoprofits.org/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
https://www.dontbuyintooccupation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/DBIO_2024_company-list.pdf ↩
https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PAX-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g25/099/00/pdf/g2509900.pdf ↩↩
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2024/01/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-juniper-networks.html ↩↩
https://whoprofits.org/publication/financing-land-grab/ ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
https://www.nbim.no/en/responsible-investment/exclusion-of-companies/ ↩
https://corporateoccupation.org/ ↩
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559024000009/ ↩
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-investigate-companies-providing-technology-to-israeli-military/ ↩↩↩↩↩
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