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The current size and shape of Dell's Israeli operation. The report records approximately 1,000 Dell employees in Israel, with development centres in Haifa, Beersheba and Kibbutz Galil Yam and the sales, service and business headquarters in Herzliya, and states that several dozen employees in the development operation received termination notices. Dell confirmed the move and declined to give numbers. A large share of the Israeli workforce joined Dell through its acquisition of EMC and later Israeli acquisitions.

The current statement of Dell's position, published June 2026, and the reason the relationship is written in the present tense. The dynamic report compiles profiles of eight technology multinationals - Amazon, Cisco Systems, Dell Technologies, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Palantir - which it calls 'main suppliers of technology and services to the Israeli military and security apparatus'. Its Dell profile repeats that 'Dell Technologies is the main provider of servers, storage systems and related services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israeli military', with the January 2023 tender, the July 2024 conference, the EMC storage tender and the National Cyber Park. On the park it states that the project 'is part of a greater attempt to strengthen Jewish settlement and development in the Naqab while Palestinian Bedouin communities in the region face forced displacement and de-development by Israeli authorities'. The report records: 'Prior to publication, Who Profits contacted all the companies profiled in this update to share the information presented here and request a response. No responses were received.'

Record revenue of USD 43.8 billion for the quarter ended 1 May 2026, up 88% year on year, with net income of USD 3.4 billion. Infrastructure Solutions Group revenue of USD 29.0 billion, up 181%; Client Solutions Group USD 14.6 billion, of which consumer USD 1.6 billion. Dell raised full-year fiscal 2027 guidance to between USD 165 billion and USD 169 billion, a midpoint of USD 167 billion, and its expectation for AI-optimised server revenue to roughly USD 60 billion. USD 2.1 billion was returned to shareholders in the quarter.

A worked example of the ask this page makes, with a number attached. On 24 March 2026 Trinity College Dublin Students' Union council passed a motion, proposed by postgraduate school convenor Ruaidhri Campion and seconded by education officer Buster Whaley, mandating the union president to lobby the College to remove companies non-compliant with boycott, divestment and sanctions from its preferred supplier list. Campion told council that 'due to the support from Trinity, Dell Computers are currently earning roughly 1.9 million euro'. Dell is Trinity's preferred supplier for laptops and desktops, described in the debate as the only available source of IT equipment for college staff and research students, and the motion mandates lobbying for compliant alternatives where outright removal is not possible.

Dell's own annual report, and the source of the sentence to quote back to it. On human rights it states: 'We endeavor to ensure that we are not complicit in human rights violations, and we hold our suppliers and other business partners to this same standard', and says its policies are guided by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. It records approximately 97,000 employees as of 30 January 2026, down through the year on reorganisations and hiring limits, and total net revenue of USD 113.5 billion. The executive officer table as of 9 March 2026 lists Michael S. Dell as chief executive and chairman, Jeffrey W. Clarke as vice chairman and chief operating officer, David Kennedy as chief financial officer, Richard J. Rothberg as general counsel, Jennifer D. Saavedra as chief human resources officer, William F. Scannell as president and chief customer officer, Geraldine Tunnell as chief marketing officer and Peter Trizzino as president, global sales.

Dell's own figures, for scale. Record revenue of USD 113.5 billion for the year ended 30 January 2026, up 19%; operating income USD 8.1 billion; net income USD 5.9 billion. Infrastructure Solutions Group, which sells the servers and storage, took USD 60.8 billion of that, up 40%; Client Solutions Group, which sells the laptops and desktops, USD 51.0 billion, up 5%, of which consumer revenue was USD 1.9 billion in the quarter. The company closed more than USD 64 billion in AI-optimised server orders during the year and returned a record USD 7.5 billion to shareholders.

The fullest current record, and the one that dates and prices the contracts. Who Profits is an independent Israeli research centre that tracks corporate involvement in the occupation. It states that 'Dell Technologies is the main provider of servers, storage systems and related services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israeli military'. It records that 'In January 2023, Dell Technologies won the server tender of the Israeli Ministry of Defense for the supply of servers, maintenance services and related equipment to the Israeli army, the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) and other security bodies for two years', that the scope was over USD 150 million and that it 'was funded by US foreign aid, provided by the United States to Israel'. It records the July 2024 'IT For IDF' conference on computing for operational and combat support systems, sponsored by Dell 'in the context of the deadly Israeli military offensive on Gaza'; a 2019 ministry tender for Dell laptops; and the 2006 tender for 50,000 desktop computers worth USD 35 million. On the subsidiary it records that EMC Israel Advanced Information Technologies is 'the main provider of data storage systems to the Israeli military', that it won the 2010 storage tender worth USD 300 million funded by US aid, and that 'EMC systems served as the main platform for the military relocation to the Naqab project, where new military data centers, based on EMC systems, were established'. It records EMC receiving NIS 22,563,308 from the Prime Minister's Office between 2019 and 2024 for research in the National Cyber Park, Dell's selection for the ministry's military technology security facility in the Naqab, and Dell personnel mentoring a military hackathon for the Computer and IT Directorate and cyber defence units in August 2018. On VMware it records supply to the Israeli military between 2016 and 2021 and a 2016 agreement worth NIS 100 million to 2019 allowing use 'almost without restriction'. Involvement categories: population control, and specialised equipment and services. Israeli office at HaMada St 9, Herzliya; Israeli subsidiaries Dell Technology & Solutions Israel Ltd. and EMC Israel Advanced Information Technologies Ltd. Page valid to 6 January 2026.

Dell's own account of its Israeli engineering presence. The company's Israeli careers site describes three work environments, at Glil Yam (Herzliya), Haifa and Beer Sheva, and lists the work as advanced storage technologies, artificial intelligence, cloud, edge, cybersecurity and data science. The Beer Sheva site sits in the technology park at Beer al'Saba that Who Profits records as the National Cyber Park, adjoining the Israeli military's information and communications technology campus.

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

Omar Zahzah's investigation, and the only account of Dell hardware inside the Israeli targeting systems. Zahzah is a writer of Palestinian and Lebanese descent and an assistant professor of Arab and Muslim ethnicities and diasporas studies. He reports that 'Internal documents shared with The Electronic Intifada reveal that Dell technology is supporting a host of Israeli military operations, including AI used to monitor and target Palestinians. These materials show that Dell hardware is used when running Lavender and The Gospel to automate targeting decisions and minimize human oversight, increasing the speed of military assaults.' He reports that Unit 8200 'uses Dell's AI-powered Pro-Rugged 13 laptops for intelligence gathering, surveillance and military operations'; that Dell 'provides laptops and servers that enable Israeli AI company AnyVision's facial recognition systems'; that it supplies laptops, edge servers, VMware and networking to Cisco Israel and laptops, servers and networking to Cognyte Technologies Israel; and that recorded beneficiaries include the Golani Brigade, the naval unit Flotilla 13 and the Israeli air force, with Elbit Systems Land & C4I 'reportedly' receiving laptops, servers and networking. The documents themselves are not published. Dell first sent a statement saying it is 'committed to the highest standards and complying with local laws and regulations where we do business', then attempted to recall the email and asked the journalist to hold pending an updated statement, which had not arrived by publication.

Francesca Albanese's report to the Human Rights Council, which sets out the framework this page argues within: that the occupation has become a testing ground for arms manufacturers and technology companies, and that corporate entities carry direct responsibility not to contribute to violations or to undermine Palestinian self-determination. The report names over 45 entities and draws on a database of approximately 1,000 corporate entities compiled from more than 200 submissions.

The American Friends Service Committee's research register, which describes Dell as 'a US multinational technology company that provides products and services to the Israeli military' and refers researchers to the Who Profits company profile for the underlying contracts. Page valid as of 14 April 2025.

The wire-service investigation by Michael Biesecker, Sam Mednick and Garance Burke into United States technology in Israeli military targeting, built on internal documents, data and interviews with current and former Israeli officials and company employees. On Dell it states, in full: 'The military has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers.' It records that use of Microsoft and OpenAI models by the Israeli military rose sharply after October 2023, that Google and Amazon provide cloud and artificial intelligence services under the Project Nimbus contract, and that Palantir has a strategic partnership with Israel.

The published policy Dell's press office pointed The Electronic Intifada to when asked about the Israeli military contracts. It states that Dell 'respects the human rights of all people as reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights', that the company 'will not be complicit in human rights violations, and we hold our suppliers and other business partners to this same standard', and that it complies with local laws and regulations wherever it does business, seeking within the bounds of local law to honour internationally recognised human rights where local law conflicts. The policy is written for the value chain and does not address the sale of equipment to state military customers.

The Palestinian-led ask, and the reason a shopper is an audience for this page. The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the coalition of Palestinian organisations that leads the BDS movement, names DELL as one of thirteen brands 'carefully selected due to each company's proven record of complicity'. Its entry states that 'Dell Technologies supplies the servers, maintains services and related equipment to the Israeli military as a part of a $150 million 2023 contract funded by US foreign aid', and that Dell is 'establishing research and development activity in Israel's National Cyber Park that attempts to strengthen illegal settlements in the Naqab, displacing Palestinian Bedouin communities'. The entry also states that Michael Dell donated USD 350 million of shares 'to Israel' in the month after October 2023; the contemporaneous Forbes reporting it links to records the gift as 5,150,000 Dell shares given to the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and three undisclosed donor-advised funds.

The institutional ask, which is distinct from the consumer one. The Palestinian BDS National Committee also names DELL among its non-Israeli institutional-pressure priority targets in the technology sector, alongside Amazon, Cisco Systems, Google, HPE and HP Inc., IBM, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Motorola Solutions, Oracle and Palantir. The committee states that it relies on five external databases for this work, among them Who Profits and AFSC Investigate.

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. This is the finding that attaches to the military Dell supplies with servers, storage and maintenance.

What Lavender is, for a reader meeting the name here. Yuval Abraham's investigation, based on six Israeli intelligence officers who served during the assault on Gaza, reports that the Lavender system marked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants for possible air strikes, that officers were given sweeping approval to adopt its lists with minimal human checking, and that a linked system tracked men to their family homes so that strikes could be timed to their arrival. The reporting records an error rate of roughly 10 per cent and pre-authorised civilian casualty ratios. The earlier +972 and Local Call investigation of November 2023 described 'The Gospel', which generates buildings and structures as targets, with one source calling it 'a mass assassination factory'.

The International Court of Justice found a real and imminent risk to the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide, and ordered Israel to prevent them. The Court made no finding on the merits of the genocide claim, which remains pending; the order's significance for a supplier is that it establishes a duty of prevention on notice of which the supplier then trades.

Reporting on a Who Profits analysis of May 2023, and the source of a claim about the Israel Police that belongs to a company Dell no longer owns. It records that Dell 'won a more than $150 million tender from the Defense Ministry to provide the military with servers, maintenance services, and other equipment', and that 'Dell's Israeli subsidiary, VMware Israel, secured a contract to supply the Israeli Police with its products from August 2021 to January 2027'. On East Jerusalem it states that 'VMware's virtual services help run the Israel Police's system of surveillance in East Jerusalem, known as the Mabat System', with around 400 cameras installed across the Old City and monitored around the clock from a police command and control centre. Dell spun VMware off in November 2021 and Broadcom acquired it in November 2023, so Who Profits' current Dell profile describes VMware as a former subsidiary supplying the Israeli military between 2016 and 2021; the police contract term runs beyond that separation.

What the Naqab build-out is for, and who it displaces. The interactive map records that almost 300,000 Palestinian Bedouins live in the Naqab, over 100,000 of them in 35 villages Israel deems illegal, of which 31 pre-date the Israeli state and four hold people the Israeli military moved there during the 1948 Nakba, and that 'All unrecognized villages are slated for erasure and are systematically deprived of basic infrastructure and services'. It records 2,568 Palestinian homes and structures demolished in 2020 alone, a 13% increase on the previous year, and that in 2019 the Development and Settlement of the Bedouins in the Negev Authority declared an intention to uproot at least 36,000 people for national economic development projects. On the corporate incentives it records Resolution No. 3976 of 2008, under which the 'Move South Administration' was established in the Ministry of Defense to relocate military bases to the Naqab with technological military campuses, and Resolution No. 528 of 2015, under which the Israeli government committed to pay up to 20% of a technology company's employee salaries if it operates from the region. Last updated 28 November 2021.

The Palestinian legal centre that litigates the Naqab demolitions. Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel records that Arab Bedouin citizens have lived in the Naqab since the seventh century and have faced a state policy of displacement, home demolition and dispossession for over sixty years; that the villages Israel calls unrecognised are denied water, electricity, sewage, education, health care and roads, deliberately, to press residents to give up their land; and that the Prawer-Begin Bill approved by the Knesset on 24 June 2013 would destroy 35 villages and forcibly displace up to 70,000 people. Adalah states that it and its partner organisations 'have been challenging the Prawer Plan before courts, government authorities and the international community'.