BDS-1000 Dossier: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Key Findings

• Military: HPE was selected in July 2024 to lead a new Israeli military server-farm project, extending a relationship dating to 2006 including a 2009 contract to virtualise the entire Israeli military’s systems, plus ongoing sole-supplier server contracts with Israel Police (~NIS 4M through 2026) and Israel Prison Service.¹²³
• Digital: HPE is sole supplier of computing infrastructure for Israel’s national biometric database (contract extended through May 2028, NIS 3,129,750) and sole supplier of Itanium servers for the Palestinian population registry “Aviv” system (through June 2026, ~$818K).⁴⁵
• Political: HPE suspended Russia/Belarus sales following the 2022 Ukraine invasion but has issued no equivalent statement or operational adjustment regarding Gaza; the UN Special Rapporteur’s A/HRC/59/23 report names HPE for “long-term involvement in Israel’s apartheid infrastructure.”⁶⁷

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• Israeli subsidiary: Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd. (wholly owned; founded 1998; HQ: Ra’anana)

Executive Summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a major US-headquartered enterprise technology company whose Israeli subsidiary, Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd., maintains documented commercial relationships with multiple Israeli state security bodies. The most recent documented engagement is the July 2024 selection of HPE to lead a new Israeli military server-farm project, supplying hardware and managing construction contractor selection for an underground facility.¹² This extends a relationship documented since at least 2006, when the legacy HP entity began administering Israeli military IT infrastructure, including a pilot for the Israeli Navy (the branch enforcing the Gaza naval blockade) and a 2009 expansion to virtualize the entire Israeli military’s systems.³ HPE was for a multi-year period the exclusive server provider to Israeli military and security forces under contracts extended until 2017.³

Beyond the military, HPE’s Israeli subsidiary holds active contracts with the Israel Police (sole-supplier server and maintenance contracts renewed through December 2026, ~NIS 4 million), the Israel Prison Service (maintenance contracts through February 2026, ~NIS 445,000), and the Population and Immigration Authority (sole supplier of Itanium servers for the Palestinian population registry since 2017, with a current contract through June 2026 valued at approximately US$818,250).¹⁸⁴⁵⁹ HPE is also the sole supplier of computing infrastructure to the Israel National Digital Agency for the national biometric database, with a contract extended in May 2025 through May 2028 at NIS 3,129,750.⁴⁵⁹ The UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report names Hewlett Packard/HPE among technology corporations involved in Israel’s military, police, and prison infrastructure.⁶¹⁰¹¹

The strongest documented vectors are the military server farm (Military), the population-registry and biometric database contracts (Digital), the economic value of government security contracts (Economic), and the company’s silence on the conflict combined with its selective geopolitical engagement (Political). What is not supported by evidence: HPE is not listed in the UN OHCHR settlement database; no evidence was found of HPE supply to Israeli defense primes (Elbit, IAI, Rafael); no evidence of weapons-system integration; the Beitar Illit R&D center was transferred to DXC Technology after 2017; and no court proceedings specifically naming HPE were identified.^1231314 The resulting BRS score is 782 / Tier B (Severe), driven primarily by Political (8.20) and Digital/Economic (both 8.00), reflecting the company’s sustained, multi-domain involvement in Israeli state security infrastructure.

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

Corporate Structure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company was incorporated in Delaware and began independent operations on November 1, 2015, following the separation of the former Hewlett-Packard Company into HPE (enterprise infrastructure, servers, storage, services) and HP Inc. (personal computing and printing).²⁰²¹²⁵ The split was operative: government, military, and security-sector IT contracts passed to HPE, while HP Inc. retained consumer and printing divisions.²⁰³²³ HPE is headquartered in Spring, Texas, having relocated from San Jose, California, in 2020.²⁵

Israeli Subsidiary. HPE operates in Israel through its wholly owned subsidiary Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd., headquartered at 9 Dafna St., Ra’anana 4366223, with additional reported offices in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Be’er Sheva.⁹¹⁵ The subsidiary was founded in 1998 and serves as the contracting and supply vehicle for Israeli government and commercial customers.⁹¹⁵ The UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report states that “opaque business structures have obscured the roles of their seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries” following the 2015 split.^6101131

Divested Operations. The Beitar Illit R&D center - an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, established in 2006 by EDS - fell within HPE’s perimeter between the November 2015 split and 2017, and was subsequently transferred to DXC Technology after the 2017 spin-off of HPE’s Enterprise Services business.¹³¹⁵ This transfer is documented and constitutes a mitigation factor under the temporal rule.

Acquisitions with Israeli Nexus. HPE acquired Zerto in September 2021 for approximately US$374 million. Zerto was founded in 2009 and co-headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and Boston, with Israeli engineering operations in Herzliya that became part of HPE’s R&D footprint.²⁶²⁷²⁸ HPE completed its acquisition of Juniper Networks on July 2, 2025.²⁵

Subsidiary of Note. Aruba Networks (acquired 2015, retained post-split) has been noted by Who Profits Research Center for networking equipment deployments in Israeli institutional contexts.²³ No specific settlement-territory deployment has been confirmed in primary procurement records reviewed.

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE’s documented military involvement operates through three mechanisms: direct defense contracting, sustainment of military IT infrastructure, and population-control/biometric systems.

Direct Defense Contracting. The most recent documented engagement is the July 2024 selection of HPE by the Israeli military to lead a new military server-farm project - supplying the hardware and managing selection of the construction company for an underground facility.¹² This extends a relationship documented since 2006, when the legacy HP entity began administering Israeli military IT infrastructure, starting with a pilot for the Israeli Navy (the branch enforcing the Gaza naval blockade) and expanding in 2009 to virtualize the entire Israeli military’s systems.³ For a multi-year period, HP/HPE was the exclusive server provider to Israeli military and security forces under contracts extended until 2017, when (per AFSC) Cisco replaced the company.³¹⁹

Security-Sector Sustainment. HPE’s Israeli subsidiary provides servers, software, maintenance, and services to the Israel Police and Israel Prison Service under documented contracts. Israel Police contracts include a January 2024 award of approximately NIS 4 million extending support through December 2026 (sole supplier), and a March 2021 award of approximately NIS 4 million for proactive maintenance.¹⁸ The Israel Prison Service contracts include maintenance of the central server farm and backup facilities, including storage systems and SAN switches, with awards of approximately NIS 364,075 (April 2024) and NIS 445,000 (March 2025, through February 2026).¹⁸

Population-Control Systems. The Basel System - developed, installed, and maintained by the legacy HP/EDS Israel entity under a 1999 Israeli Ministry of Defence tender - used hand scanners and facial-geometry recognition to identify Palestinians at Israeli military checkpoints and administer the Palestinian worker-permit regime.¹⁶¹⁷ It was confirmed operational at more than 20 checkpoints including Jericho, Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem, Hebron, Abu Dis, Tarkumia, Eyal, Irtach (West Bank), and Erez (Gaza), with installation from 2004.¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸ The Basel System was terminated at the end of 2016; no active HP maintenance contracts for it have been identified since.⁸¹⁷

UN-Level Characterisation. The UN Special Rapporteur’s report A/HRC/59/23 (July 2, 2025), From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, names Hewlett Packard/HPE as having “long-term involvement in Israel’s apartheid infrastructure, providing technology to the military, police, and prison systems, while their opaque business structures obscure accountability through seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries.”⁶¹⁰¹¹

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Civilian Character of Products. HPE’s primary documented products in the Israeli context are commercial enterprise servers, storage systems, and networking equipment - general-purpose IT goods rather than purpose-built military hardware. The company’s hardware is not designated mil-spec, ruggedised for tactical deployment, or calibrated for kinetic military effect.³¹ This distinguishes HPE from companies manufacturing weapons platforms or defence-electronics primes.

Absence of SIBAT Registration. No public evidence identifies HPE in SIBAT (Israel’s Defence Export and Defence Cooperation Directorate) directories as an Israeli defence exporter. HPE’s documented role is as a foreign technology supplier to Israeli military and security end-users, not as an Israeli defence-export entity.¹²

Absence of Weapons-System Integration. No public evidence was identified of HPE supplying components, sub-systems, or specialist manufacturing services to Israeli defence primes (Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI Systems) as named inputs to a weapons programme. No joint development, co-production, or licensed-manufacturing agreement between HPE and any Israeli defence prime was identified.³¹⁶ Generic internal-IT use of commercial server hardware by defence primes would not itself constitute weapons-system integration.³

Discontinued Basel System. The Basel System - the most directly occupation-specific documented product - was terminated at the end of 2016. No active maintenance contracts for this system have been identified since that date.⁸¹⁷

No Export-Control Violations. No public evidence was identified of any government decision to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke a defence or dual-use export licence specifically for HPE products destined for Israeli military or security end-users. HPE’s commercial server and networking hardware is generally low-restriction (EAR99 or low-ECCN) commercial IT equipment.¹² No enforcement action, penalty notice, or formal citation against HPE for arms-embargo or export-control non-compliance was identified.³¹

No Court Proceedings. No public evidence was identified of court proceedings, judicial review, or shareholder derivative action brought against HPE specifically concerning its military or security supply relationship with Israel.³⁶

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE’s digital involvement centers on provision of computing infrastructure to Israeli state bodies responsible for population data, biometric identification, and security operations.

Population Registry Infrastructure. HPE (via its Israeli subsidiary) has been the sole supplier of HPE Itanium servers and maintenance for the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority’s “Aviv” population-registry system since 2017.⁴⁵⁹ In May 2023, HPE Israel was contracted as sole supplier to provide three Itanium servers, services, and maintenance for the Aviv system from June 2023 until June 2026, valued at NIS 3,829,410 (approximately US$818,250).⁴⁵ The earlier contract through 2020 was valued at approximately US$212,318.⁴ Who Profits states the registry contains data on Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, non-citizen Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and Syrian residents of the occupied Golan, and is used in controlling permits and cross-border movement.⁴⁵ The Aviv system is being gradually phased out and replaced by IBM’s “Eitan” system.⁵³²

Biometric Database. HPE is the sole supplier of computing infrastructure to the Israel National Digital Agency for the national biometric database. A contract was extended in May 2025 running through May 2028, valued at NIS 3,129,750, following a March 2022 extension (through April 2025) valued at NIS 3,500,000.⁴⁵⁹ Earlier biometric-project involvement of the legacy HP entity includes a 2008 biometric ID-card project (~NIS 230 million) and 2016 services continuation (NIS 31+ million).⁴⁵

Military and Security IT. The July 2024 military server-farm selection extends HPE’s sustainment role to a new dedicated military data facility.⁴⁵⁹ The Israel Police contracts (sole-supplier through December 2026, ~NIS 4 million) and Israel Prison Service contracts (ongoing maintenance through February 2026) provide operational servers, software, and dedicated engineering support.⁴⁵⁹

Israeli R&D Footprint. Following the September 2021 acquisition of Zerto (Israeli-founded, Herzliya/Boston dual HQ), Zerto’s Israeli engineering operations became part of HPE’s engineering footprint.²⁶²⁷²⁸ HPE described the acquisition as accelerating its R&D talent roadmap.²⁶²⁷

Partner Integrations. HPE Aruba Networking publishes official integration documentation for connecting HPE Aruba EdgeConnect SD-Branch gateways to Check Point cloud network-security services (Check Point is Israeli-founded and headquartered in Tel Aviv).³³ This is a partner/integration relationship, not provision by HPE to Israel.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Acquisition vs. Provision Distinction. The Zerto acquisition is an acquisition (HPE as owner of an Israeli-founded firm), not provision of technology to Israel. The Digital methodology weights acquisition differently from provision.²⁶²⁷²⁸

No Project Nimbus. Project Nimbus is the ~US$1.2 billion Israeli-government cloud contract awarded in 2021 to Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. No public evidence identifies HPE as holding a Project Nimbus prime or sub-contract.³⁴

No Offensive Cyber Capability. No public evidence identifies HPE developing, selling, or licensing offensive cyber capability or zero-day exploit tooling.¹⁹

No AI/ML Contracts to Israeli State. No public evidence identifies a named contract under which HPE provides AI or machine-learning systems specifically to Israeli state, military, or security bodies, distinct from general-purpose server/computing infrastructure.¹⁹

Reseller-Channel Gap. No independent forensic documentation (e.g., by Citizen Lab, Amnesty Tech) confirms specific deployment of HPE commercial hardware reaching IDF field units or settlement infrastructure via Israeli resellers/distributors. This reseller-channel question is a structural gap common to hardware-vendor audits.¹⁹

No HPE-Owned Data Centre in Israel. No public evidence identifies HPE operating, leasing, or co-locating a dedicated HPE-owned data-centre facility within Israel for its own cloud infrastructure.¹⁹

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE’s economic nexus to Israel operates through its wholly owned Israeli subsidiary, which holds and delivers documented government security contracts, and through historical settlement-located investment.

Government Security Contracts. The principal documented economic nexus is HPE’s provision of servers, software, maintenance, and services to Israeli state security bodies through Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd. Documented contract values include: Population Registry ($212K 2017–2020; $818K 2023–2026), Biometric Database ($1M+ annually across multiple extensions), Israel Police ($4M per multi-year period), Israel Prison Service (NIS 2,695,268 over 2015–2020; ongoing maintenance contracts), and the July 2024 military server-farm selection.⁹⁴⁵ These represent direct commercial revenue flowing to HPE’s Israeli subsidiary.

Israeli Operational Presence. HPE operates through Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd. headquartered in Ra’anana, with offices in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Be’er Sheva.⁹¹⁵ The subsidiary is a registered Israeli legal entity subject to Israeli corporate tax on locally generated income.⁹

Historical Settlement Investment. An R&D centre in Beitar Illit (Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank) was established in 2006 by EDS, came under HP following the 2008 EDS acquisition, fell within HPE’s perimeter between November 2015 and 2017, and was transferred to DXC Technology after the 2017 Enterprise Services spin-off.¹³¹⁵ AFSC additionally documents a 2005 “smart city” project associated with the settlement of Ariel.¹³

Institutional Divestment. A multi-year record of investor and institutional divestment from HP/HPE on Israel/Palestine grounds has been documented, including: Friends Fiduciary Corporation (2012), Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly (2014), Unitarian Universalist Association (March 2016), University of Chicago (April 2016), Swedish bank SEB (June 2017), Dublin City Council (April 2018), Students Federation of India (June 2018), Unite the Union of the UK (July 2019), and Swarthmore College (March 2019).¹³

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No Israel-Specific Revenue Disclosure. HPE does not separately capitalise or itemise its Israeli operations as a standalone foreign-direct-investment line in its SEC filings; segment revenue is reported by three broad geographic regions without country-level breakdown.³⁵³⁶ No public evidence identifies an Israel-attributed revenue figure in any HPE investor communication.

No Israeli Sovereign Investment. No public evidence identifies HPE holding Israeli sovereign bonds, Israel-focused investment funds, or material equity positions in Israeli-domiciled companies as treasury or investment holdings.³⁵³⁶

No Controlling Israeli Ownership. No public evidence identifies an Israel-domiciled controlling shareholder, private-equity sponsor, or beneficial owner with an Israel-specific mandate. The largest holders are diversified global index/asset managers.³⁶

Beitar Illit Transferred to DXC. The settlement-located R&D facility was transferred to DXC Technology after 2017 and is no longer within HPE’s perimeter.¹³¹⁵

No Settlement-Origin Product Labeling. HPE does not sell food, agricultural, or consumer-retail products subject to country-of-origin produce-labelling regimes. Neither Who Profits nor AFSC raise settlement-origin product-labelling issues against HPE.³⁵⁹

Norwegian Fund Status. HP/HPE is held within the Government Pension Fund Global’s portfolio and has been flagged in connection with West Bank–linked technology, but no public evidence confirms HPE’s formal addition to the fund’s published exclusion list as of the audit date.³⁷³⁸

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

HPE’s political involvement is characterized primarily by silence and selective engagement rather than active political advocacy.

Silence on the Conflict. HPE has issued no publicly identifiable corporate statement specifically addressing the October 2023 Hamas attack, the subsequent Israeli military campaign in Gaza, or the broader Israel-Palestine conflict as of April 2026. CEO Antonio Neri published no op-ed, open letter, or social-media post addressing Palestinian civilian casualties, the Gaza conflict, or related humanitarian concerns.³⁹ HPE’s publicly available communications on the conflict are confined to general ESG and human rights disclosures, none of which reference the conflict by name.⁴⁰⁴¹⁴²

Selective Geopolitical Engagement. HPE’s silence on Gaza is rendered more notable by its documented response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict: HPE suspended sales in Russia and Belarus following the February 2022 invasion. CEO Neri confirmed this publicly, and the financial impact was disclosed in SEC filings.⁷ No equivalent disclosure, operational adjustment, or statement regarding Israeli-occupied territories, settlements, or Gaza operations appears in the FY2022, FY2023, or FY2024 10-K or proxy filings reviewed.⁷

ESG Disclosures. HPE’s Living Progress Reports for 2023 and 2024 contain sections on human rights, supply chain ethics, and conflict-sensitive business. Neither report references the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israeli settlements, or the post-October 2023 conflict by name.⁴⁰⁴¹ HPE’s Human Rights Policy Statement articulates general commitments to internationally recognised human rights standards but contains no conflict-specific provisions and no reference to the UN Guiding Principles’ heightened-risk framework for conflict-affected areas.⁴²

Post-ICJ/Post-ICC Conduct. The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the legal consequences of Israeli occupation was issued July 19, 2024. The ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant on November 21, 2024. No evidence has been identified of HPE reviewing, amending, or publicly addressing its Israel operations in response to either development.⁷

BDS Campaign. The BDS National Committee maintains a “Boycott HP” campaign explicitly covering both HP Inc. and HPE as successor entities sharing the HP brand and corporate lineage, citing biometric ID systems in the West Bank, IT infrastructure for Israeli military and prison services, and Aruba networking equipment.⁴³⁴⁴ HPE has not issued a public statement specifically addressing the BDS campaign.⁴²

Academic Partnerships. HPE has a documented partnership with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa), through joint research programs and HPE’s academic partnership framework.⁴⁵⁴⁶ The Technion receives significant Israeli government and defence ministry funding and maintains formal collaboration with IDF elite technology units through the Talpiot program. The specific scope, financial terms, and research topics of HPE’s Technion relationship - and whether any deliverables have dual-use or defence applications - are not confirmed in primary documents reviewed.⁴⁶

Event Participation. HPE participates in Cybertech Tel Aviv, co-organised in partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Economy and the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute.[^Political-30] HPE participates in Start-Up Nation Central ecosystem activities, an Israeli government-linked initiative to market Israeli technology internationally.⁴⁶

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No UN OHCHR Database Listing. HPE is not listed as a standalone entry in the February 2023 UN OHCHR settlement database (the most recently publicly released version as of the research cutoff), which lists 112 business enterprises.¹⁴ HP Inc. has been listed in prior iterations in connection with providing hardware and biometric population-registry technology to Israeli authorities operating in the West Bank.¹⁴²⁴

No OECD NCP Complaint. No OECD National Contact Point complaint specifically naming HPE (as distinct from HP Inc.) has been identified in the OECD Watch database as of the research cutoff.⁴⁷

No Government Enforcement Action. No identified US government enforcement action (OFAC, BIS, DDTC) relates to HPE’s Israel operations. No ICC, ICJ, or UN sanctions proceeding names HPE specifically.⁷

Standard Commercial Framing. No identified annual report, investor presentation, or earnings call transcript frames Israel operations in geopolitical, security-partnership, or occupation-economy terms. Israel is not broken out as a named geographic segment in HPE’s SEC filings; it is subsumed within the broader EMEA segment.⁷

No Settlement Contracts Confirmed. No specific contract to a settlement entity has been identified in publicly available records. The use of HPE’s authorised partner and reseller network in Israel to supply settlement municipal authorities cannot be ruled out but has not been confirmed.²³

No Employee Discipline. No public reports, legal filings, or news articles have been identified documenting HPE HR enforcement actions against employees for pro-Palestinian speech, display of symbols, or union activity related to the Israel-Palestine conflict.⁴⁸

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

• V_MAX: 8.20 Sum_OTHERS: 21.57
• BRS Score: 782 Tier: B (Severe)

Score Interpretation. Political drives V_MAX at 8.20, reflecting HPE’s sustained silence on the post-October 2023 conflict combined with its selective geopolitical engagement (suspension of Russia/Belarus operations without equivalent Israel action) and ongoing participation in Israeli academic and tech-ecosystem events. Digital and Economic both score 8.00, driven by the documented provision of computing infrastructure to Israeli state security bodies (population registry, biometric database, police, prison service, military server farm) and the economic value of these contracts. Military scores 5.57, reflecting the same military and security nexus but with a lower Impact score that accounts for the civilian character of the products involved and the discontinued Basel System. The tier is B (Severe), reflecting a BRS of 782.

Method Note. Scores are evidence-only, derived from the four domain audits. Impact (I) measures activity type (scale-free); Magnitude (M) measures scale; Proximity (P) measures directness. Temporal rule: divested/exited operations (Beitar Illit R&D, transferred to DXC 2017) are mitigated. Entity attribution: no transitive guilt. Settlement operation (Beitar Illit) dual-counts Economic + Political where applicable.

Methodology Note

• Evidence-only standard. All claims in this dossier trace to the four domain audits (Military, Digital, Economic, Political). The audits use “No public evidence identified” wherever checks found nothing. Claims the audits mark unverified or unresolved are carried with those caveats or excluded. No fabricated claims, divested operations, or wrong-entity attributions are included.
• Scale-free Impact (I). Measures the type of activity (e.g., weapons supply vs. general IT services), not the company’s size or revenue. Calibrated against a common standard across all entities audited.
• Magnitude (M). Measures the scale of documented involvement - contract values, duration, scope of operations - where evidence permits quantification.
• Proximity (P). Measures directness of the relationship to the end harm - prime contractor to a military user scores higher than a sub-tier component supplier through a distributor.
• Temporal rule. Divested or exited operations are discounted. The Beitar Illit R&D center (transferred to DXC Technology after 2017) is not scored as current HPE activity.
• Entity attribution. No transitive guilt: a partner vendor’s other clients, a founder’s military background, or a separate corporate entity’s activities are not attributed to HPE. The 2015 HP/HPE split is foundational: pre-split activities are dated and labelled; post-split attribution requires contract-level review.
• Settlement operation dual-counting. Where a settlement-located operation implicates both economic activity and political presence, it may be counted in both Economic and Political.
• “No public evidence identified.” Used throughout where the audits’ checks found nothing. This is a factual finding, not a conclusion of innocence.
• Counter-arguments. Each domain section presents the company’s strongest documented or plausible defence. This dossier’s credibility depends on presenting the evidence record faithfully, including exculpatory findings.

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