Why?
💬 Supports Israel🪖 Supplies the IOF⚖️ Violates Palestinian rights⛏️ Profits from occupied land
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⌨️ Tech
CEO
Enrique Lores
Complicity Level
Deeply complicit
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⚠️ Big Tech
❌ HP has been deeply complicit in Israel's occupation of Palestine, through supplying technology to the Israeli government, military and security forces - including, but not limited to, tools used to restrict Palestinian rights and freedom of movement.
This excellent article by CJPME outlines several key points about HP’s involvement in Israel:
HP provides technologies and services directly to the Israeli government, military, and security forces, thereby facilitating Israel’s illegal control over the occupied Palestinian territories. Despite their efforts to distance themselves from their unjust actions against Palestinians, HP and its subdivisions remain responsible..
Further:
HP has also worked with the Israeli military, helping build its IT infrastructure.[iv] This included a program with the Israeli Navy which enforces the illegal naval blockade on Gaza.
And regarding the oppressive “Basel” biometric ID card:
HP funded and developed the “Basel” biometric ID card system for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. From 2005 to 2015, the Basel System was used to track and control the Palestinian population. This system severely restricts Palestinians' freedom of movement by making it difficult to travel without constant surveillance and checkpoint controls.[vi]
Deployed in Gaza and the West Bank, it was a system used for segregation and control, and as a tool for enforcing the Israeli occupation.[vii] By design, the checkpoints segregate and fragment the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territory) and its inhabitants, separating workers from their places of employment, students from their schools, and families from each other through electrified fences, watchtowers, and concrete barriers.
And about HPE’s (HP’s subdivision ‘Hewlett Packard Enterprise’) involvement in the Israeli prison system:
Additionally, HPE maintains the central server system for the Israeli Prison Service, placing the company at the core of Israel's use of mass incarceration to suppress Palestinian resistance.
Read the entire article from CJPME here. Also recommended, the Boycott HP article by BDS Movement.