The technology company is one of many ‘entwined in the system of occupation, apartheid, and genocide’ in Palestine
Dell Technologies enjoys deeper ties with the Israeli military than previously known, including enabling Israeli soldiers to target and kill Palestinian civilians using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, the Electronic Intifada reported on 24 July.
In January 2023, the US-based multinational won a $150 million tender from Israel’s Defense Ministry to supply servers and IT infrastructure to the Israeli army, other security bodies, and the ministry itself.
The deal included services provided by Dell subsidiaries VMware and EMC Israel Advanced Information Technologies, which offered both technology and training to Israeli military units.
According to the watchdog group WhoProfits.org, Dell is also involved in occupation-linked initiatives such as Israel’s National Cyber Park in the Negev desert, a joint government-industry-academia project explicitly designed to advance military cyber capabilities.
However, internal documents obtained by the Electronic Intifada reveal a deeper level of complicity than previously reported. These documents show that Dell technology is actively used in Israeli military operations involving artificial intelligence, including tools allegedly responsible for mass surveillance and automated targeting of Palestinians.
Among the systems supported by Dell infrastructure are “The Gospel,” an AI program that generates infrastructure targets; “Lavender,” which produces algorithm-driven kill lists; and “Where’s Daddy,” a tool used to track individuals and bomb them once they return home.
Dell’s rugged AI-powered laptops are reportedly used by Israel’s elite Unit 8200 cyberwarfare unit, while its servers and networking hardware support facial recognition systems developed by the Israeli firm AnyVision, which is deployed widely at checkpoints across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Beneficiaries of Dell’s technologies include the Golani Brigade – implicated in the killing of 15 paramedics in Rafah in April 2024 – the Flotilla 13 naval unit, and the Israeli Air Force. Elbit Systems Land & C41, the communications arm of the Israeli arms giant, also receives Dell equipment.
Dell’s ties to the Israeli military stretch back nearly two decades.
In 2006, it provided 50,000 computers to the Israeli army. After merging with EMC Corporation in 2016, Dell absorbed a large R&D presence in Israel, which founder and CEO Michael Dell described as a “center of excellence.”
At a 2016 tech conference in Tel Aviv, Dell stated the company was “deeply committed to Israel” and later met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Gaza.
In January 2024, amid escalating violence in Gaza, Michael Dell posted a photo with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on social media, writing, “It’s an honor to stand with Isaac Herazog and Israel.”
Herzog’s comments blaming “an entire nation” in Gaza for the 7 October attacks were cited in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) interim ruling ordering Israel to halt genocidal acts.
Dell is also reportedly a major donor to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a US-based fundraising organization.
In a July 2025 report, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned the corporate complicity in Israel’s actions. “Corporate actors are deeply entwined in the system of occupation, apartheid, and genocide,” she wrote, highlighting how companies like Dell, Microsoft, and Palantir are enabling a “livestreamed genocide” through AI technologies and cloud infrastructure.
“Corporations cannot claim neutrality,” Albanese warned. “They are either part of the machinery of displacement – or part of dismantling it.”