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Zoom MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-11
Military Score 0.00 /10 C Zoom - BDS-1000 511
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Zoom Communications, Inc. is a Delaware corporation whose 2026 filing describes an AI-first communications and collaboration platform, including Zoom Workplace, Zoom Phone, Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Events, and Zoom AI Companion 1.

An Israeli Government Procurement Administration notice records a Ministry of Justice single-supplier procurement from Naotech Communications Group for Zoom licences, published on 27 June 2021, valued at NIS 128,992, and scheduled for 1 July 2021 through 30 June 2022 2.

The attached procurement protocol limits that procurement to up to 35 Zoom service licences 3.

The identified purchaser was the Ministry of Justice rather than the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another listed security body, so the record supports civilian-government licensing rather than a verified defence or security contract 2.

No public evidence identified of Zoom contracts, tender awards, framework agreements, or memoranda of understanding with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or Israeli defence primes.

Zoom’s disclosed subsidiary exhibit lists 28 subsidiaries and contains no entity organized in Israel, the occupied Palestinian territory, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights; this document-scoped finding does not establish the absence of Israeli customers, resellers, personnel, or other commercial activity 4.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Zoom markets “Zoom for Defense” for the U.S. Department of Defense and states that the service received DISA Impact Level 4 authorization for communications on DoD NIPRNet, effective 1 December 2025 5.

The cited Zoom material presents this as a U.S.-specific government offering and does not verify sale, deployment, or licensing to Israeli military or security end-users 5.

No public evidence identified of a ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec, Israeli contract-modified Zoom product, Israeli defence end-user certification, or Israeli export-licence record.

General-purpose videoconferencing should not be inferred to constitute kinetic targeting, weapons integration, or military operational effects without evidence of a specific end use 6, 7, 8, 9.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Zoom’s disclosed business is communications and collaboration software rather than heavy machinery, construction equipment, or infrastructure development 1.

No public evidence identified of Zoom equipment or services being used in settlement construction, demolition, barrier infrastructure, checkpoints, military installations, or other occupied-territory construction activity 6, 7, 8, 9.

This finding is bounded by the reviewed UN and NGO reports, official procurement results, corporate materials, and focused web results, rather than establishing an exhaustive absence across all potential activities 6, 7, 8, 9.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified that Zoom supplies components, sub-systems, manufacturing services, or joint-development technology to Elbit, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence manufacturer 6, 7, 8, 9.

The reviewed source classes for this question included official procurement results, defence-directory search results, corporate materials, and the specified UN and NGO reports 6, 7, 8, 9.

Zoom’s 2026 subsidiary list identifies entities including Zoom Voice Communications, Keybase, Solvvy, Workvivo, Brighthire, Bonsai Technologies, and Templobe, but does not identify an Israeli defence-prime affiliate 4.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

Naotech, the intermediary named in the Ministry of Justice Zoom-licence procurement, states that its long-standing client categories include government ministries, municipalities, and “armed forces” 2, 10.

Naotech’s site also includes a testimonial describing Zoom as a principal conferencing and collaboration tool, but neither that testimonial nor the customer-category statement identifies an Israeli armed-force customer, dates, products, or contracts 10.

The Naotech material is therefore an intermediary lead and does not verify that Israeli armed-force clients used Zoom or that Zoom provided support services to Israeli military installations 10.

No public evidence identified of Zoom contracts for base services, military logistics, freight, port handling, or support to installations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, or Negev.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of Zoom manufacturing, integrating, maintaining, or supplying lethal weapons, munitions, strategic platforms, or weapons-specific targeting or fire-control sub-systems for Israeli forces 6, 7, 8, 9.

The available corporate description identifies Zoom as a communications and collaboration platform, not as a weapons manufacturer or defence-platform integrator 1.

No source reviewed establishes Israeli military use of Zoom for kinetic targeting, weapons integration, or military operational effects 6, 7, 8, 9.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of export-licence decisions, sanctions or export-control enforcement, arms-embargo proceedings, or judicial challenges concerning Zoom supply to Israeli military or security end-users.

Zoom’s published “Zoom for Defense” authorization concerns U.S. Department of Defense NIPRNet communications and does not itself document an Israeli export authorization or Israeli military end user 5.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Zoom was not listed in the document-scoped full-text checks of the UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, the 2023 OHCHR settlement-business database, PAX’s June 2024 Companies Arming Israel and Their Financiers, or Al-Haq’s July 2024 business-and-human-rights report 6, 7, 8, 9.

Those document-scoped checks do not establish database-wide, sector-wide, or public-discourse-wide absence 6, 7, 8, 9.

No public evidence identified of an organized boycott, divestment, exclusion campaign, or company response specifically grounded in Zoom’s Israeli defence-sector activity.

Zoom’s 2026 proxy identifies retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster as a director, while Zoom’s corporate biography states that he served as a commissioned U.S. Army officer for 34 years and as U.S. National Security Adviser from February 2017 to April 2018 11, 12.

The reviewed entity materials provide no evidence that McMaster has an Israeli defence-industry role, Israeli military service, or an Israel-related military-channel act connected to Zoom 12.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000158552126000030/zm-20260131.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/4000534998 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/attachment/C586B16EB7FE1EDE85AF9D6D73980143/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%20%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9D ↩

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000158552126000030/listofsubsidiaries_2026.htm ↩ ↩2

  5. https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/zoom-for-government-achieves-il4-authorization/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  7. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session53/advance-versions/a-hrc-53-22-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  8. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  9. https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2024/08/21/business-and-human-rights-report-1724220079.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  10. https://www.naotech.com/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000162828026028866/zm-20260430.htm ↩

  12. https://www.zoom.com/en/about/team/ ↩ ↩2