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Cisco's Israeli revenue rose from USD 122 million in fiscal 2015 to USD 283 million in 2024, USD 111 million of it attributed to 'conflict impact', in internal presentations and revenue records given by whistleblowers to Murtaza Hussain of Drop Site News. An April 2021 internal report calls Cisco 'the dominant ICT … partner to the MOD' and records the Israeli Ministry of Defense account as ten classified organisations making up half of Cisco Israel's revenue. One slide is headed 'Never let a good crisis go to waste'. Cisco did not respond to a request for comment.

Cisco reported record revenue of USD 15.8 billion for the quarter ended April 2026, up 12% year on year, with GAAP net income of USD 3.4 billion and a GAAP operating margin of 25.0%. Total product orders rose 35% and networking product orders more than 50%. It guides to USD 62.8 to 63.0 billion for full-year fiscal 2026, and reports remaining performance obligations of USD 43.5 billion: contracted revenue not yet recognised, which is the measure an institutional cancellation moves.

Cisco announced completion of its acquisition of the Israeli cybersecurity company Astrix Security on 4 May 2026, at a final price of about USD 400 million. Astrix was founded in 2021 by Alon Jackson and Idan Gour, both graduates of the Israeli military's Unit 8200 signals intelligence unit, and secures 'non-human identities' such as API keys and service accounts. Its capabilities are to be integrated into Cisco Identity Intelligence and the Duo and Secure Access products, and fed into Splunk. Globes reported the announcement the same day.

Cisco won the Israeli Ministry of Defense's server tender in 2017, replacing HP: three years at NIS 1 billion with an option for two more, integrated by the Israeli company Bynet Data Communications and funded by United States foreign aid to Israel. The ministry published a further tender for Cisco headsets with a push-to-talk button in March 2025, and one for Cisco servers in July 2025, per the independent Israeli research centre Who Profits, which tracks corporate involvement in the occupation.

Cisco Israel is preparing to lay off dozens of employees, most at its development centre in Netanya, from a workforce of roughly 800 people in Israel. Cisco says it is reviewing its operations to streamline and adapt to the changing needs of customers and the organisation. It announced a cut of about 7% of its global workforce in August 2024. Reported by Meir Orbach.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel concludes that Israeli authorities and security forces 'have committed and are continuing to commit' acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and that Israel bears responsibility for failing to prevent it, for committing it, and for failing to punish it. The analysis covers Gaza over the period 7 October 2023 to 31 July 2025.

At least 32 Cisco employees had lost 288 family members in Gaza since October 2023, Archit Mehta reported for Drop Site News. On 25 March 2025 the chief people, policy and purpose officer told a company-wide call that the Middle East 'cannot be discussed, cannot be debated' in company or organisation-wide meetings. The same report records an employee outspoken on Palestine being dismissed hours later, and Bridge to Humanity, the largest internal pro-Palestine chat room, being deleted a week afterwards. Cisco did not comment.

Cisco says it has 'a longstanding commitment to respecting human rights' throughout its global operations, that it conducts due diligence 'on transactions that present heightened potential human rights risks', and that its sales activities comply strictly with United States export rules. Invited by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre to answer the allegations about its Israeli military, police and settlement business, it did not address the Ministry of Defense contracts, the technology hubs on occupied land or the Israel Police purchases.

'The military has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers.' That is the report's full statement on Cisco. Its wider finding is that Israeli military use of Microsoft and OpenAI models rose sharply after October 2023. Cisco did not respond to a request for comment. Built by Michael Biesecker, Sam Mednick and Garance Burke from internal documents, data and interviews.

The Israeli military kept buying Cisco servers after Dell replaced Cisco as its main server provider in 2023: almost USD 2 million across eight contracts between November 2023 and January 2024, from the Israeli Ministry of Defense procurement database. The Palestinian BDS National Committee, which compiled the figure, calls it 'likely an underestimate', because the database discloses only unclassified contracts awarded without a tender process. Cisco had replaced Hewlett Packard Enterprise as sole server provider in 2017.

Cisco is 'a priority tech target that is best impacted through ending institutional contracts', in a Dump Cisco Day of Action called by the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the coalition that leads the BDS movement, for 11 February 2025 and timed to Cisco's earnings call the next day. It names the products to look for in an institution's own contracts: Webex, Meraki, Duo Mobile, Splunk, ThousandEyes, Jasper and Cisco hardware, including desk phones and security cameras.

Cisco 'provides technologies to the Israeli military, police, and prisons', and to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, in the American Friends Service Committee's research register, which flags it under Gaza Genocide, Military Contractors and Settlement Industry. The register records the Israeli Ministry of Defense selecting Cisco in 2017 as sole server provider to the military, at a minimum value of USD 250 million, paid for by the United States government through the Foreign Military Sales programme.

Seventy per cent of East Jerusalem residents surveyed censor themselves on social media for fear of retribution, 65.3% say using it poses a personal risk, and a quarter report significant changes to their freedom of movement. 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, a Palestinian digital rights organisation, interviewed fifteen people and surveyed 502 residents in September and October 2024. It documents a systematic increase in surveillance cameras with facial recognition, drones and predictive 'criminal' behaviour algorithms.

Eleven of the government-funded digital hubs fitted with Cisco technology stand in the Naqab, two of them in the Palestinian Bedouin towns of Hura and Rahat, and seven stand on occupied land, the student BDS campaign at UCL found. The same research records Cisco and Microsoft together putting USD 500 million into the Israeli venture group Team8 in March 2024, and University College London holding GBP 2,043,488 of Cisco stock as of July 2023.

The Court held that Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful, that Israel is under an obligation to bring it to an end, and that settlements and their associated economic activity are contrary to international law.

Cisco employees and shareholders set the company's Israeli military, police and settlement business against its own 'Conscious Culture' commitments, human rights policy and code of business conduct, in an open letter of about thirty pages demanding transparency about its dealings with the Israeli military. More than 1,700 employees signed the associated internal call for divestment in June and July 2024, according to the BDS movement, which published the letter.

Cisco offered the Jerusalem municipality a free 36-month pilot in August 2017, at two sites in the centre of West Jerusalem. It installed communications equipment and closed-circuit cameras wired to a command and control centre with video analysis, voice detection, alerts on lingering groups and capacity to analyse footage from up to 10,000 cameras. The city's visual surveillance apparatus 'predominantly targets the Palestinian population under its control', Who Profits found. Twenty-six of the 100 hubs launched with the Israeli government in 2018 were planned for Jerusalem, including occupied East Jerusalem. Cisco did not reply before publication.

Cisco won a multi-million shekel contract in January 2017 to upgrade the networks of the Israeli military and the Ministry of Defense, delivered through the Israeli systems integrator Bynet. The award displaced Hewlett Packard Enterprise as the military's server supplier; Dell took the tender over in 2023.

Cisco won a USD 150 million contract from the Israeli army in November 2013 to supply communications equipment, running five years with an option to extend by two. The Ministry of Defense relationship predates the 2017 server tender by at least four years.