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Hewlett Packard (HP & HP-E)

HP is a multinational conglomerate in computing hardware, software, and services. It was split into two companies: HP Inc. for consumer hardware like PCs and printers, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP-E) for business and government services. Both HP-branded corporations are complicit in Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism and are a direct target for boycotts.

Apartheid as Infrastructure

HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism, and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide servers the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority which is the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.

The Basel System and Checkpoint Infrastructure

The Basel System - an automated biometric access control system used at checkpoints throughout the occupied Palestinian territories. This system, developed by HP through its subsidiary EDS Israel, collected extensive biometric data including fingerprints, retinal scans, and facial recognition of Palestinians. Between 2012-2014, the Israeli Ministry of Defense confirmed the system's installation in over 20 checkpoints, effectively turning HP technology into tools for population control and restriction of movement.

Support for Israeli Police, Prisons, and Occupational Forces

HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) has provided extensive support and services to the Israeli systems of oppression. This includes but is not limited to server farms, backup centers, data storage systems, maintenance, and general and IT infrastructure technological infrastructure to various Israeli Occupational and apartheid enforcing and maintaining entities, this includes:

HPE is also deeply embedded in Israel's population control apparatus through its Itanium servers supplied to the Israeli Population Immigration and Borders Authority. These servers power the "Aviv System" - Israel's population registry that contains detailed information about Palestinians in occupied territories, actively used to implement discriminatory policies affecting Palestinians' freedom of movement, voting rights, family reunification, and access to services.

HP is also involved itself in biometric surveillance, earning hundreds of millions of dollars for contracts for biometric IDs and the maintenance of those systems.

Through these contracts, HP provides servers, data storage, and IT infrastructure that enable these entities to maintain systems of control over the occupied Palestinian population.

Operations in Illegal Settlements

DXC Technology, an HP spinoff, maintains a Research and Development Center in the illegal settlement of Beitar Illit in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The company is even responsible for the systems that enable Israel to track and systematically demolish Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories. This direct involvement in settlement infrastructure and home demolitions represents a clear violation of international law regarding business activities in occupied territories.

Despite these associations, HP still claim it "adheres to the highest standards of ethical business conduct" and "does not take sides in political disputes." However, the company’s technology and services form an integral part of the infrastructure supporting Israel's occupation policies. In 2016, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk specifically called for boycotting companies benefiting from Israeli illegal settlements until their practices align with international human rights and humanitarian law, with HP listed among the companies mentioned in the report.

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