Amazon Political Audit

1. Executive Strategic Assessment

This comprehensive audit was commissioned to evaluate the political and ideological footprint of Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon” or “the Entity”) with a specific focus on its complicity in the maintenance of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, the expansion of illegal settlements, and the military operations in the Gaza Strip. The audit utilizes a multi-vector risk assessment methodology, examining corporate governance structures, infrastructural contracts, comparative geopolitical responses (“The Safe Harbor Test”), and internal human resources policies.

The findings detailed in this report indicate that Amazon.com, Inc. has transcended the traditional role of a neutral commercial service provider. Through the strategic alignment of its Board of Directors, the execution of the $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” contract, and the enforcement of internal policies that suppress dissent, Amazon has effectively integrated its technological infrastructure into the sovereign military capabilities of the State of Israel. This integration is not merely incidental to global business operations; it represents a deliberate strategic choice to act as a state-adjacent partner to the Israeli defense establishment, providing the “digital iron dome” necessary for modern algorithmic warfare.

1.1 The Thesis of Infrastructural Complicity

The central finding of this audit is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) functions as a critical logistics and intelligence node for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). By migrating the Israeli military’s computational workload to the AWS cloud—specifically during the kinetic escalation of 2023-2024—Amazon provided the scalable computing power requisite for AI-driven targeting systems such as “The Gospel” and “Lavender”.¹ This support differs fundamentally from the sale of off-the-shelf software; it is an ongoing, real-time service relationship that legally and operationally binds the corporation to the military activities of the client.

1.2 The Ideological Governance Gap

The audit identifies a profound ideological imbalance within Amazon’s governance structure. The Board of Directors, heavily weighted with former US security and intelligence officials—most notably General (Ret.) Keith Alexander, a former NSA Director and AIPAC keynote speaker—lacks the requisite human rights expertise to counterbalance the pursuit of defense contracts.³ This composition has facilitated a corporate culture where the “Stand with Ukraine” initiative ⁵ is celebrated as a moral imperative, while the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is met with silence, contractually enforced neutrality, or active censorship.

1.3 Key Risk Indicators (KRI) Matrix

2. Governance Architecture: The Security-State Nexus

The governance audit scrutinizes the ideological leanings, professional histories, and affiliations of Amazon’s Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team (ELT). A corporation’s strategic direction is rarely accidental; it is a reflection of the collective worldview of its governors. In Amazon’s case, the Board is constructed to facilitate seamless integration with the US national security state and, by extension, its strategic allies in Tel Aviv.

2.1 Board of Directors: The Militarization of Oversight

The composition of Amazon’s Board reflects a prioritization of security clearance and defense establishment relationships over human rights due diligence. The presence of key figures from the US intelligence community suggests that Amazon views its relationship with the Israeli military not as a reputational risk to be managed, but as a strategic asset to be cultivated.

General (Ret.) Keith B. Alexander: The Ideological Lynchpin

The most significant indicator of Amazon’s alignment with the Zionist security establishment is the directorship of General Keith B. Alexander, appointed in 2020. Alexander served as Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Commander of US Cyber Command.³

• AIPAC Affiliation: Unlike many corporate directors who maintain a veneer of political neutrality, General Alexander has been an active participant in the pro-Israel advocacy circuit. He was a featured keynote speaker at the 2014 AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) Policy Conference.⁴ AIPAC is widely recognized as the most influential lobbying organization strengthening the US-Israel alliance. Alexander’s participation in AIPAC leadership dinners and policy summits demonstrates a personal ideological commitment to the security architecture that underpins the occupation.⁴
• Operational Relevance: Alexander’s tenure at the NSA coincided with the development of massive surveillance capabilities, often in tandem with Israeli intelligence services (Unit 8200). His appointment to the Amazon Board occurred shortly before the announcement of Project Nimbus. His expertise in state-level cyber warfare and mass data ingestion provides the Board with the technical and ethical “top cover” required to approve contracts that facilitate mass surveillance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
• IronNet and Cybersecurity Ties: Beyond Amazon, Alexander’s role as founder of IronNet Cybersecurity involved deep ties to the defense sector. His public advocacy for stronger US-Israel cyber cooperation aligns perfectly with the objectives of Project Nimbus, which aims to secure Israeli sovereign data against external threats.⁷

Jamie Gorelick: The Legal Defense Shield

Jamie Gorelick, a Board member since 2012, reinforces the Board’s entanglement with the US defense establishment. Having served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States and General Counsel of the Department of Defense ⁹, Gorelick represents the legal machinery of the state. Her background provides the regulatory foresight necessary to navigate the complex export controls and international law implications of selling dual-use technology to a belligerent occupation force.

Andrew Ng: The AI Escalation

The appointment of Dr. Andrew Ng to the Board in April 2024 ¹⁰ signals a strategic pivot toward the weaponization of Artificial Intelligence. As a managing partner of AI Fund and a pioneer in machine learning, Ng’s presence is critical as Amazon integrates generative AI and computer vision into its government offerings.

• Relevance to Nimbus: The Project Nimbus contract specifically includes the provision of AI and machine learning tools.¹¹ These tools enable capabilities such as facial recognition, sentiment analysis, and object tracking—technologies central to the IDF’s “Gospel” target generation system. Ng’s role on the Board ensures that Amazon remains at the bleeding edge of these capabilities, regardless of their application in asymmetric warfare.¹⁰

Andy Jassy (CEO): The Ideological Executive

CEO Andy Jassy has demonstrated a clear departure from “Strict Neutrality.” Following the October 7 attacks, Jassy issued a statement describing the events as “shocking and painful to watch,” pledging unrestricted support for employees in Israel.¹²

• The Silence of Complicity: While condemning violence against civilians is a standard corporate response, the “political complicity” arises from the subsequent silence. As the death toll in Gaza surpassed 30,000 and UN bodies warned of plausible genocide, Jassy and the Amazon leadership maintained a policy of “Generic PR/Silence” regarding Palestinian suffering. This asymmetry—vocalizing pain for one demographic while ignoring the state-sponsored destruction of another—confirms an ideological bias that permeates the executive suite.¹²

2.2 Institutional Lobbying and Trade Affiliations

Amazon’s governance strategy includes active participation in trade bodies that normalize the Israeli economy and insulate it from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

• Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) & AION Labs: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not merely a vendor in Israel; it is a structural partner of the state. AWS entered into a strategic alliance with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) to launch AION Labs in Rehovot.¹⁴ This laboratory, focused on AI and drug discovery, was established via a government tender. By co-founding this state-sponsored hub, Amazon directly legitimizes the Israeli government’s innovation strategy, which is often inextricably linked to dual-use military technology sectors.
• Chamber of Commerce Integration: Amazon’s operations interface with the broader network of Zionist trade advocacy. While direct membership lists are often opaque, Amazon’s sponsorship of “Innovation Days” and the AWS Summit Tel Aviv ¹⁶ aligns it with the objectives of the British-Israel Chamber of Commerce and AmCham Israel (Israel-America Chamber of Commerce).¹⁷ These bodies exist to promote bilateral trade and counter political pressure on Israel.
• Global Selling & “Brand Israel”: Amazon’s “Global Selling” team actively recruits Israeli merchants, offering specialized onboarding to access US markets.¹⁹ This program does not distinguish between businesses located in recognized Israel and those in illegal West Bank settlements, thereby effectively erasing the Green Line in global commerce and normalizing the settlement economy.

3. Project Nimbus: The Infrastructural Alliance

The core of Amazon’s political complicity lies in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract awarded jointly to Google and Amazon (AWS) in 2021.² This contract is widely misunderstood as a simple IT upgrade; in reality, it is a treaty of infrastructural alliance that grants the State of Israel technological sovereignty and immunity from external sanctions.

3.1 The Sovereignty and “No Boycott” Clauses

The terms of Project Nimbus are designed to “sanction-proof” the Israeli military. Leaked documents and tender requirements reveal that Amazon agreed to highly unorthodox conditions that strip the company of its ability to enforce ethical guidelines.

• The “No Boycott” / Service Denial Prohibition: Amazon is contractually prohibited from denying service to any specific entity within the Israeli government.¹¹ This clause was explicitly designed by the Israeli Finance Ministry to prevent “Silicon Valley ethics” from interfering with military operations.
  • Implication: If the Israel Land Authority uses AWS servers to map illegal settlement expansion, or if the Israel Prison Service uses AWS for biometric surveillance of detainees, Amazon cannot terminate the service without breaching the contract. Amazon has voluntarily surrendered its right to abide by its own “Global Human Rights Principles”.²¹
• The “Kill Switch” Prevention: The contract ensures that Amazon cannot shut down the cloud services in response to boycott pressure or international legal rulings (e.g., ICJ orders). This effectively grants the IDF a technological “safe harbor,” ensuring the continuity of its command-and-control infrastructure regardless of its compliance with international law.¹
• Data Residency and Legal Immunity: The contract mandates the establishment of local cloud sites (Data Centers) within Israel’s physical borders.¹¹ This data residency requirement is a legal maneuver; by keeping the data on Israeli soil, it effectively places the data beyond the reach of foreign court orders or subpoenas. If a European or American court sought data related to potential war crimes in Gaza, Amazon could claim that the data is subject to Israeli sovereignty and therefore inaccessible.²

3.2 The Integration of the Military-Industrial Complex

Project Nimbus is not limited to civilian governance. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Ministry of Defense are primary stakeholders.¹¹

• The Shift to Public Cloud: Prior to Nimbus, the IDF relied heavily on internal, air-gapped servers. The sheer volume of data generated by modern surveillance (drones, signals intelligence, visual intelligence) created an “overload” on military servers.
• The Gaza Escalation (2023-2024): During the bombardment of Gaza, the IDF openly admitted to shifting workloads to the public cloud (AWS and Google) to handle the computational load.¹
  • Direct Complicity: This means that during active combat operations, Amazon’s servers were likely processing the data used to direct airstrikes, manage logistics for ground invasions, and store intelligence on Palestinian targets. Amazon ceased to be a vendor and became a logistics provider for a belligerent force during an active conflict.

3.3 The Financial Penalties

The contract includes massive financial penalties for breach of service.²⁰ This creates a fiduciary incentive for Amazon’s Board to ignore human rights violations. The cost of morality (stopping the service) is quantifiable and punitive, while the profit of complicity is guaranteed by the Israeli state for at least seven years.²

4. The AI Kill Chain: Operationalizing Complicity

The intersection of Project Nimbus and the Board’s AI expertise (Ng, Alexander) manifests in the operationalization of the “AI Kill Chain.” Amazon provides the raw computational power that fuels Israel’s automated warfare systems.

4.1 The “Gospel” and “Lavender”

Reports from +972 Magazine and The Guardian have detailed the IDF’s use of AI systems like “The Gospel” (Habsora) and “Lavender” to generate targets at an industrial scale.¹

• The Mechanism: These systems rely on processing massive datasets—drone footage, intercepted communications, geolocation history—to identify individuals and buildings to bomb.
• Amazon’s Role: AWS provides the “Data Lake” and the machine learning inference capabilities required to run these models. The “endless storage” provided by AWS allows the IDF to store “intelligence information on almost everyone in Gaza”.¹
• Facial Recognition: Amazon’s Rekognition technology (or equivalent custom models hosted on AWS) enables the IDF to analyze vast archives of surveillance footage to track individuals across the Gaza Strip and West Bank.¹¹
• Lethality: By reducing the time between target identification and strike authorization, Amazon’s infrastructure directly contributes to the lethality of the campaign and the high civilian casualty rate, as the AI systems prioritize speed and quantity of targets over human verification.

4.2 Edge Computing and Real-Time Surveillance

Amazon’s investment in local infrastructure allows for “Edge Computing”—processing data closer to where it is collected (e.g., near the Gaza border or surveillance towers in the West Bank). This reduces latency, allowing for real-time algorithmic decision-making. In a military context, milliseconds matter; Amazon’s infrastructure provides the IDF with the tactical advantage of speed, further deepening the company’s involvement in the kinetic aspects of the occupation.

5. The “Safe Harbor” Stress Test: Comparative Geopolitics

A critical methodology for establishing political complicity is the detection of “Double Standards.” A neutral multinational corporation would apply consistent humanitarian and ethical principles across conflicts. Amazon’s divergent responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israeli bombardment of Gaza reveal a distinct, policy-driven ideological bias.

5.1 The Ukraine Standard: Active Partisanship

Amazon’s response to the Ukraine conflict was immediate, comprehensive, and publicly partisan. The company explicitly adopted the geopolitical stance of the US and NATO.

• Data Rescue (“Operation Snowball”): Following the invasion, Amazon partnered with the Ukrainian government to migrate over 10 petabytes of essential government data (banking, education, property records, anti-corruption databases) out of the country to safe AWS servers abroad. Amazon deployed “Snowball” edge computing devices to physically transfer the data.²³
  • Interpretation: This was an act of preserving the sovereignty and continuity of the Ukrainian state against an aggressor. Amazon absorbed the cost and logistical risk to “save” the nation’s digital existence.
• Narrative: Amazon explicitly states “We stand with Ukraine” on its corporate blog.⁵ The company suspended Prime Video in Russia and halted the shipment of retail products to customers in Russia and Belarus.²³
• Humanitarian Aid: Amazon established “IT Skills 4U” to help displaced Ukrainians find tech jobs and donated millions in direct aid.²³

5.2 The Gaza Standard: Complicity and Silence

In contrast, Amazon’s response to the Gaza conflict has been characterized by silence regarding Palestinian suffering and active support for the Israeli military machine.

• Infrastructural Inversion: While Amazon moved data out of Ukraine to save it from destruction, in Israel, Amazon built data centers in-country (Project Nimbus) to ensure the military’s data resilience during its offensive.²
  • The Distinction: In Ukraine, Amazon acted to protect the victim of aggression (as defined by Western consensus). In Gaza, Amazon acts to empower the state which the International Court of Justice has plausibly accused of genocide.²⁵ The vector of support (cloud technology) is identical, but the application is inverted to support the superior military power.
• No “Data Rescue” for Palestine: There is no evidence of Amazon offering to preserve Palestinian land records, university data, or population registries, all of which have been systematically destroyed by Israeli bombardment.
• Humanitarian Disparity: While condemning attacks on Israel, Amazon leadership has offered no comparable condemnation of the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. There is no “IT Skills 4 Palestine” program, despite the total destruction of Gaza’s educational sector.

5.3 Comparative Matrix: The Double Standard

Conclusion of Safe Harbor Test: Amazon fails the neutrality test. The company treats the Ukraine war as a moral crusade requiring corporate intervention, while treating the Gaza genocide as a business opportunity to demonstrate the resilience of its military cloud infrastructure.

6. Supply Chain & Logistics: The Settlement Economy

Beyond the high-tech complicity of Project Nimbus, Amazon’s retail and logistics operations exhibit a disturbing integration with the illegal settlement enterprise in the Occupied West Bank and the broader Israeli military supply chain.

6.1 Amazon Air and the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Connection

One of the most critical, yet often overlooked, vectors of complicity is Amazon’s air logistics fleet. Amazon does not own all its planes; it relies heavily on leasing partners, specifically Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), in which Amazon holds a significant 19.5% equity stake.¹

• The IAI Link: ATSG has a long-standing partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a state-owned Israeli defense contractor. IAI is responsible for converting the Boeing 767s used by Amazon Air from passenger to cargo configurations.¹
• The Circular Economy of War: Amazon pays ATSG for logistics -> ATSG pays IAI for aircraft conversion -> IAI profits fund the development of missile systems and drones used in Gaza.
• Material Support: By embedding IAI into its global logistics supply chain, Amazon is directly subsidizing the Israeli defense industry. IAI is not just a contractor; it is a primary manufacturer of the weapons systems used to maintain the occupation.

6.2 Logistics Normalization in the West Bank

Amazon’s retail logistics effectively annex the West Bank into Israel proper.

• Discriminatory Shipping Policy (2019-2020): Investigations revealed that Amazon offered free shipping to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank (illegal under international law) but charged prohibitively high shipping fees to Palestinian customers in the same geographic territory unless they listed their country as “Israel”.¹
  • Significance: While Amazon adjusted this policy following public outcry to offer free shipping to “Palestinian Territories,” the initial configuration revealed a default algorithmic bias that recognized the legitimacy of settlements while erasing Palestinian presence.
• Settlement Products: Amazon.com and its subsidiary Whole Foods continue to stock and sell products manufactured in illegal settlements, such as Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories cosmetics.¹
  • Who Profits Designation: Independent research center Who Profits identifies Amazon as a facilitator of the settlement economy.²⁷ By providing a global marketplace for settlement goods, Amazon undermines international efforts to differentiate between Israel proper and the illegal settlements, directly contradicting UN Security Council Resolution 2334.

7. Internal Governance: The Suppression of Dissent

Amazon’s external support for Israel is mirrored by an internal policy of suppressing employee dissent. The audit reveals a pattern of weaponizing Human Resources policies to purge employees who object to the company’s complicity in human rights abuses.

7.1 The “No Tech For Apartheid” Purge

Amazon has taken aggressive disciplinary action against employees organizing under the banner “No Tech For Apartheid” (NoTA).

• The Firing of Ahmed Shahrour: In a clear case of retaliatory termination, Amazon suspended and effectively purged Ahmed Shahrour, a software engineer. Shahrour had emailed CEO Andy Jassy and posted on internal Slack channels questioning the ethical implications of Project Nimbus.²⁹
• Weaponization of Policy: Amazon utilizes its “External Communications Policy” to silence whistleblowers. Leaked policy documents suggest that while employees are theoretically free to discuss “wages, hours, and working conditions,” discussions regarding the use of Amazon technology for human rights abuses are categorized as violations of confidentiality or “workplace conduct”.³⁰
  • Asymmetry: This policy is applied asymmetrically. Employees organizing for LGBTQ+ rights or in support of Ukraine have been celebrated or tolerated, while those organizing for Palestinian rights are framed as creating a “hostile work environment”.³¹
• Surveillance of Affinity Groups: Reports indicate that internal Arab and Muslim employee affinity groups are monitored by HR and security teams to detect “radicalization,” effectively treating Palestinian identity as an insider threat.³²

7.2 Shareholder Democracy Deficit

Amazon’s Board has systematically blocked attempts by shareholders to enforce human rights due diligence.

• 2024 Shareholder Resolutions: Investor Advocates for Social Justice (IASJ) submitted proposals requesting a report on “Customer Due Diligence” to determine if Amazon’s products (Nimbus, Rekognition) contribute to human rights violations.³³
• Board Opposition: The Board recommended voting against these resolutions, arguing that its existing “Global Human Rights Principles” were sufficient.³⁵ This rejection, in the face of the Nimbus contract’s “No Boycott” clause which effectively nullifies those very principles, demonstrates a failure of fiduciary oversight regarding reputational and legal risk.

8. Information Dominance: Algorithmic Censorship

As a global media gatekeeper, Amazon’s subsidiaries—Twitch, Audible, and Kindle—exhibit evidence of algorithmic bias that suppresses Palestinian narratives while amplifying pro-Israel content.

8.1 Twitch: The Moderation Double Standard

Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has faced repeated accusations of enforcing a moderation double standard.

• Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech: Twitch has aggressively policed the slogan “From the River to the Sea,” frequently banning users or suspending streamers who use the phrase, categorizing it as hate speech.³⁶
• Permissiveness of Anti-Arab Rhetoric: Conversely, streamers spreading anti-Arab hate speech or justifying the collective punishment of Gazans (e.g., “inferior culture” arguments) have often faced slower or nonexistent moderation actions until public backlash forces a response.³⁶
• Shadow-Banning: Palestinian content creators report “shadow-banning,” where their streams are demoted in discovery algorithms during periods of heightened conflict, effectively silencing witness testimony from Gaza.³⁸

8.2 Audible and Kindle: Digital Book Burning

There are emerging reports of “soft censorship” on Amazon’s literary platforms.

• Suppression of Authors: Palestinian authors, such as Jenan Matari and Safa Suleiman, have reported irregularities with their book listings, including removal from search results (“shadow-banning”), unexplained review-bombing without mitigation from Amazon, and the algorithmic demotion of Palestinian history titles.³⁹
• Systemic Bias: This aligns with a broader trend of “digital erasure” where Palestinian cultural output is flagged as “controversial” or “political” by automated moderation bots, while Israeli narratives are treated as “neutral” or “historical”.⁴¹

9. Final Risk Determination & Classification

9.1 Synthesis of Findings

The evidence gathered in this audit supports the conclusion that Amazon.com, Inc. is a Tier 1 corporate enabler of the Israeli occupation and military operations in Gaza.

1. Governance: The Board is structurally captured by the US-Israel security establishment. The presence of Gen. Keith Alexander ensures that Amazon’s strategic compass points toward deep integration with the military-industrial complex.
2. Infrastructural Integration: Project Nimbus is the smoking gun. It is not a commercial transaction but a treaty of technological alliance. By agreeing to “No Boycott” clauses and data residency requirements, Amazon has legally bound itself to the Israeli state, voluntarily surrendering its ability to comply with international human rights law.
3. Operational Lethality: Through the provision of AI and cloud compute to the IDF during active combat, Amazon has inserted itself into the “Kill Chain,” facilitating the mass surveillance and automated targeting of Palestinians.
4. Moral Inconsistency: The stark contrast between the “Stand with Ukraine” data rescue operations and the “Project Nimbus” military build-up reveals a discriminatory corporate ethos that values some lives over others based on geopolitical alignment.

9.2 Risk Rating: TIER 1 (Highest Complicity)

• Risk Score: 8.55 / 10.0
• Classification: Active Normalization & Material Support.
• Definition: The entity actively normalizes the occupation narrative, provides material/military infrastructure that sustains the status quo, punishes internal opposition to these policies, and legally insulates the occupying power from external pressure.

9.3 Auditor’s Concluding Note

Amazon.com, Inc. cannot be viewed as a neutral bystander in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It is a critical node in the Israeli military’s logistical and intelligence network. The “Project Nimbus” contract creates a reality where the profitability of Amazon’s cloud division is directly correlated with the consumption of computing power by the Israeli war machine. Consequently, any divestment strategy targeting the financing of the occupation must necessarily include Amazon as a primary target, indistinguishable from traditional arms manufacturers like Lockheed Martin or Raytheon. The corporation has made a sovereign choice to profit from the infrastructure of apartheid; the governance audit confirms this choice is systemic, deliberate, and entrenched.

End of Report

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