IBM

Revenue of USD 17.2 billion for the quarter to 30 June 2026, up 1%: software USD 7.8 billion, consulting USD 5.3 billion, infrastructure USD 3.8 billion and financing USD 0.2 billion. Net income of USD 2.2 billion and free cash flow of USD 2.5 billion. Arvind Krishna is named as chairman, president and chief executive officer and James Kavanaugh as senior vice president and chief financial officer.

The most recent confirmation that the relationships are live. Who Profits compiles profiles of eight multinational technology providers - Amazon, Cisco Systems, Dell Technologies, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation and Palantir Technologies - and states that they supply 'the Israeli military, the Israel Police, and the Israel Prison Service'. The IBM section carries the registry, military logistics, Red Hat and Israel Police contracts in present tense, including the police contracts running to December 2030 and January 2031. Who Profits records that it contacted all the companies profiled before publication to share the information and request a response, and that no responses were received.

IBM's own figures for 2025: full-year revenue of USD 67.5 billion, up 6%, and fourth-quarter revenue of USD 19.7 billion, up 9%. Software revenue rose 14% in the quarter to USD 9 billion, helped by automation, data and Red Hat products, and infrastructure rose 21% to USD 5.1 billion. The generative artificial intelligence book of business stood at more than USD 12.5 billion.

The current contract record, and the most detailed one. Who Profits is an independent Israeli research centre that tracks corporate involvement in the occupation. It lists six wholly owned Israeli subsidiaries and an Israeli office at Hashachar Tower, 4 Ariel Street, Givatayim. On the registry: IBM was selected in 2017 to establish and operate the Eitan system for the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority, contracted in 2018 for about NIS 840 million to develop the national Population Registry management system, and, on a freedom of information response of May 2021, has been responsible for operating Eitan since 2019. Contracts recorded: a Population and Immigration Authority security operations centre by tender exemption, August 2023 to August 2026, NIS 4,648,363; the 'Information Avenue' inter-ministerial system, September 2023 to September 2025, NIS 579,999; Marom e-visa services, February 2024 to February 2025, NIS 1,278,564; remote biometric identification, 2021, NIS 5.6 million; Israel Police DataPower gateways as sole supplier from November 2025 to January 2031; Israel Police MQ software maintenance from January 2026 to December 2030; the 2020 Ministry of Defense contract as main IT provider for three military regional logistics centres for 25 years, valued at USD 1 billion shared with Malam Team; military computing centre operation and maintenance, 2017, over USD 20 million; and storage and central servers, 2011. Page valid until 5 January 2026.

IBM's own account of its Israeli research presence: 'We just celebrated our 50th year of inventing what's next', and 'With locations in Haifa, Givatayim, and Be'er Sheva, IBM Research Israel, is one of our largest labs outside of the US.' The lab's stated work covers artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud, security, accelerated discovery and quantum computing. The UN Special Rapporteur dates IBM's Israeli operations to 1972, the same 50-year span.

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 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.

The leverage point for anyone with access to a UN agency. PassBlue reports that IBM 'is also a regular supplier to UN agencies of servers, analytics and other tech elements', sets out IBM Israel's operation of the Population and Immigration Authority's central database since 2019, and notes that the UN Supplier Code of Conduct and Financial Regulation 5.2 require fairness, integrity and transparency and oblige vendors to uphold human rights. The UN spokesperson said the procurement office would prepare a comment; none was provided.

The central document naming IBM, and the source for the present tense. Paragraph 38 records that 'IBM has operated in Israel since 1972, training military and intelligence personnel - especially from Unit 8200 - for the technology sector and start-up scene', and that 'Since 2019, IBM Israel has operated and upgraded the central database of the Population and Immigration Authority, enabling collection, storage and governmental use of biometric data on Palestinians, and supporting the discriminatory permit regime of Israel'. The footnote to that sentence cites an Israeli government page on IBM's maintenance contract with the Authority. A later paragraph describes IBM Israel as the company 'which runs the discriminatory Israeli Population Registry' and records EUR 7.75 million of Horizon Europe research funding to IBM Israel - Science and Technology Ltd. The report is by Francesca Albanese, the independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to report on the occupied Palestinian territory.

David Cronin's report on European Union research money reaching IBM Israel while it runs the Israeli population registry, covering artificial intelligence projects approved under the Horizon Europe programme. The figure the UN Special Rapporteur later published for IBM Israel - Science and Technology Ltd was EUR 7.75 million.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee names IBM among its non-Israeli institutional-pressure priority targets in the technology sector, alongside Amazon, Cisco Systems, Dell, Google, HPE and HP Inc., Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Motorola Solutions, Oracle and Palantir. This is a divestment and institutional-contract ask, distinct from the committee's short consumer boycott list, which IBM is not part of. The committee states that it relies on five external databases for this work, including the UN OHCHR database, Who Profits and AFSC Investigate.

A Palestinian human rights organisation registered in Palestine setting out how the identity documents produced from the registry sort Palestinians by where they live - East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the diaspora - and how the resulting classes carry different restrictions on movement, healthcare, education, property and family reunification. It describes the system as producing 'deep-rooted discrimination, effectively dividing and isolating Palestinian communities'.

Sam Biddle's report on how IBM answered its own staff. In a livestreamed question-and-answer session on 6 June 2024, chief executive Arvind Krishna told employees: 'We operate in Israel, but we also operate in Saudi Arabia. What do those countries want us to do? And what is it they consider to be correct behavior?' On weapons he said: 'We will not work on offensive weapons programs. Why? I am not taking any kind of moral or ethical judgment.' The article records that IBM in 2020 split a contract of roughly USD 275 million to build data centres handling Israeli military logistics including 'combat equipment', citing the Israeli outlet TheMarker, and that a Red Hat executive told an Israeli business publication that year 'we see ourselves as partners of the IDF'. IBM did not respond to the outlet's request for comment.

The American Friends Service Committee's profile, which places IBM on its BDS Divestment Shortlist under the tags Discrimination and Weapons and Military Equipment. It states that IBM 'designed and operates the central database - called "Eitan" - of Israel's Population, Immigration, and Borders Authority', won a USD 240 million contract for it in 2017 and 'assumed full responsibility for Israel's population registry in 2019'. It describes the database and the identity documents it produces as 'the informational infrastructure of Israeli apartheid', determining which Palestinians fall under civilian or military law and restricting where they live, work and travel, who they marry and what services they reach. It records Red Hat's OpenShift software behind the Israeli military's Mamram central computing system and the 2017 collaboration on a cloud-based 'operational internet'. It also records IBM's 2020 statement to the United States Congress leaving general-purpose facial recognition, and a USD 69.8 million UK government national biometrics platform contract signed in 2023. Page valid as of 5 August 2024.

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 permit regime and the checkpoint infrastructure the population registry serves.

Storebrand, one of Norway's largest asset managers, sold its holding of 750,000 IBM shares in March 2024, reported at around USD 139 million. Its Q1 2024 sustainability report gave the reason: IBM supplies biometric databases to the Israeli government that are used to implement apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territory. Storebrand's communications director said the firm 'has tried to enter into a dialogue with IBM Corp about the matter, but the company has not been willing to discuss this'. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions supported the decision.

Red Hat, wholly owned by IBM, gave its 2022 technological innovation award to the Israeli military's Mamram unit - the Center of Computing and Information Systems - at its Global Summit for customers worldwide. Who Profits records that Mamram launched its operational cloud on Red Hat infrastructure in 2018, used by thousands of operational users across the Military Intelligence Directorate, the air force, the ground forces and the navy, and that Red Hat also supplies its Advanced Cluster Management and Ansible Automation platforms to the unit.

Trade reporting on the deployment of Red Hat's OpenShift platform for the Israeli military Mamram unit's cloudlet edge computing infrastructure, extending the military cloud to field operations.

The source for the contract chronology, footnoted to Israeli government publications. The Population and Immigration Authority announced on 28 November 2017 that 'the computer system is transferred to IBM Company'. Calcalist reported on 19 March 2018 that the Israeli parliament's finance committee was asked to approve NIS 840 million for the Authority to contract with IBM. The Authority announced on 2 July 2019 that 'IBM has accepted the overall responsibility for the Population Authority's systems'. Who Profits records that between 2018 and 2021 IBM was awarded computing services and hardware contracts due to run until 2035, worth over NIS 800 million for the Eitan project alone, which the Authority's own 2017-2020 report calls the Israeli government's largest computer project. The feature also sets out the permit regime the register serves: Palestinians in the occupied territory must hold a permit and a magnetic smart card carrying biometric identifiers to cross Israeli checkpoints for work, medical care or family reunification.

IBM's own commitment, and the standard to hold it to. Reporting on the letter chief executive Arvind Krishna sent to members of the United States Congress on 8 June 2020, stating that IBM 'no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software' and that the company 'firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms'. IBM was the first large technology company to take that position; Amazon and Microsoft announced restrictions within days.

What the population registry does to people. Israel controls the registry for the occupied West Bank and Gaza, so a Palestinian birth, marriage, address change or family reunion is only recorded once Israel enters it, and since 2000 Israel has frozen most changes. Human Rights Watch found that about 640,000 Palestinians - 17.2% of those registered - had relatives Israel refused to register; that more than 120,000 family reunification applications went unprocessed after 2000; and that over 130,000 Palestinians had residency cancelled between 1967 and 1994. Palestinians registered as Gaza residents but living in the West Bank face deportation and are treated as 'infiltrators' under military law. The report concludes the restrictions vastly exceed any security justification.