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Zscaler POLITICAL

POLITICAL AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Political Score 3.30 /10 B Zscaler - BDS-1000 602
Political 3.30

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Corporate Communications & Public Stance

No public evidence identified in the bounded review of an official Zscaler statement addressing Israel-Palestine, Gaza, the October 7 attacks, Israeli military operations, or Palestinian civilian harm.1, 2, 3

No comparative corporate-statement conclusion is supportable from the reviewed material.1, 2

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

Zscaler’s corporate contact page lists separate Avalor and Zscaler offices at One Tower, 21–23 Abba Hillel Silver Road, Ramat Gan, Israel.4

Zscaler’s FY2026 Form 10-K states that it maintains research-and-development centers in India, Israel, and Spain.5

On March 8, 2024, Zscaler acquired all outstanding equity of Israeli-incorporated Avalor Technologies Ltd. for $256.7 million in cash, and its FY2026 filing states that Avalor technology has been integrated into Zscaler’s cloud platform.5

Zscaler acquired Israeli-incorporated Canonic Security Technologies Ltd. on February 20, 2023 for $16.5 million, stated its intent to integrate Canonic technology into its cloud platform, and recorded that certain Canonic employees became Zscaler employees.6

We-Ankor publicly describes itself as a Zscaler partner in Israel and represents that it provides Zscaler secure-access and zero-trust network-access solutions.7, 8

We-Ankor’s 2025 republication attributes to a Zscaler regional account manager a description of We-Ankor as Zscaler’s “leading partner in Israel,” but the underlying operational account concerns expansion planned for 2023 and does not establish current sales volume.7

No public evidence identified of Zscaler operations, sales, equipment, service contracts, or reseller locations in Israeli settlements, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, or the Golan Heights.

The supplied document-scoped review found no mention of Zscaler in the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database updates or UN Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23.3, 9, 10

These non-mentions are limited to the named documents and do not establish absence from all OHCHR materials, procurement records, or operations.3, 9, 10

No public evidence identified of a Zscaler settlement contract, procurement award, regulatory proceeding, litigation, or civil-society report naming the company in connection with occupied Palestinian territory.

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

No public evidence identified in the bounded review of Zscaler employment discipline, litigation, union disputes, or policy controversies concerning Israel-Palestine-related employee speech.1, 2

No public evidence identified of Zscaler platform-content moderation, mapping, app-distribution, retail, or supply-chain controversies concerning Israel, Palestine, or settlements.1, 2

The reviewed filings characterize Zscaler as a cloud-security company, and no retail-product finding was located in the supplied research.2

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

No public evidence identified that Zscaler markets itself through Israeli military heritage, state-security origins, or a formal Israeli state partnership.1, 2

No public evidence identified of a Zscaler contract, deployment, tender award, or named customer involving the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israeli security agencies, or Project Nimbus.4, 5, 7, 8

A June 2021 Defense Innovation Unit record states that DIU implemented and formally assessed Zscaler commercial off-the-shelf technology for public-cloud access and issued Zscaler a Success Memo.11

DIU states that this Success Memo allowed U.S. Department of Defense entities to execute an OTA production contract with Zscaler through Carahsoft without recompeting.11

That U.S. defense-sector record does not establish an Israeli IDF, Ministry of Defense, or Project Nimbus contract.11

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

Zscaler, Inc. and affiliates filed a U.S. lobbying disclosure for 2023 Q4 reporting $110,000 in lobbying expenses, signed on January 22, 2024.12

The accessible filing does not identify an Israel-, Palestine-, boycott-, or Middle East-specific lobbying issue, foreign entity, or geopolitical advocacy organization.12

No public evidence identified of Zscaler corporate donations, sponsorships, free services, logistics, crisis assets, or other resources directed to the IDF, FIDF, JNF/KKL, settlement bodies, Israeli government agencies, Palestinian bodies, or conflict-related NGOs.1, 2, 12

No public evidence identified of Zscaler-directed crisis services, credits, infrastructure, logistics, or other resources for Israeli state, military, reservist, settlement, or state-aligned bodies during the current conflict.4, 5

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

Zscaler, Inc.’s SEC Central Index Key is 0001713683, and the SEC issuer-submissions record is the primary index for its filings.13

The reviewed 2025 SEC materials identify Zscaler as a Delaware-listed public company and identify no state shareholding, state-held golden share, or charter-level geopolitical mandate.1, 2

As of November 1, 2025, Zscaler’s proxy identified Ajay Mangal, as trustee, with 29,084,052 shares, or 18.2%; Jay Chaudhry with 26,857,608 shares, or 16.8%; and Vanguard as the other disclosed five-percent holder at 7.1%.1

The proxy states that the Mangal-administered CJCP and CKS trusts benefit members of the Chaudhry family.1

No public evidence identified in the supplied local-report pre-scan of Zscaler being listed in the specified OHCHR, UN Special Rapporteur, Amnesty, HRW, Al-Haq, BDS, PAX, BankTrack, KLP, or Who Profits documents.3, 9, 10

Executive & Leadership Footprint

The 2025 proxy identifies Jay Chaudhry as Zscaler’s co-founder, CEO, and board chair, with those positions held since September 2007.1

The proxy lists James Beer, Karen Blasing, Andrew Brown, Scott Darling, Charles Giancarlo, Raj Judge, Eileen Naughton, and David Schneider alongside Chaudhry on the board.1

The proxy identifies Kevin Rubin as CFO, Adam Geller as CPO, Raj Judge as EVP Corporate Strategy and a director, Mike Rich as CRO and President of Global Sales, and Robert Schlossman as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary.1

Jay and Jyoti Chaudhry are associated with the Jay & Jyoti Chaudhry Foundation, whose listed officers include Jagtar S. Chaudhry as president, P. Jyoti Chaudhry as treasurer and secretary, and Simran D. Chaudhry as director.14

The foundation’s available summaries report charitable disbursements of $45,000 for FY2025, zero for FY2024, and $10,000 for FY2023, while the accessible summaries do not identify recipients.14

The underlying grant schedules were not retrievable in the research environment, so no recipient-level inference about Israel-, Palestine-, or political-advocacy-related grants is made.14

Targeted searches concerning Jay Chaudhry, Jyoti Chaudhry, and Ajay Mangal did not produce a supportable primary-source finding of a relevant donation, board role, public statement, or investment, but this is not an exhaustive principal-level absence conclusion.1, 14

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713683/000171368325000198/zs-20251121.htm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713683/000171368325000158/zs-20250731.htm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

  3. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 2 3 4

  4. https://www.zscaler.com/de/company/contact 2 3

  5. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713683/000171368326000157/zs-20260731.htm 2 3 4

  6. https://ir.zscaler.com/static-files/f452125c-9f8d-4acf-ab27-9a1ad07fbf51

  7. https://we-ankor.co.il/its-time-to-focus-on-business-and-not-on-infrastructure/ 2 3

  8. https://we-ankor.co.il/solutions-services/cyber-security/zero-trust-architecture/ 2

  9. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/53/25 2 3

  10. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 2 3

  11. https://www.diu.mil/solutions/portfolio/catalog/a0Tt0000009En10EAC-a0ht000000AYgyZAAT 2 3

  12. https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/9dcdddd3-d2e0-452a-9d06-c83e97554303/print/ 2 3

  13. https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001713683.json

  14. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824247564 2 3 4