Dell Technologies

Throughout Aotearoa, many workplaces and education facilities invest in Israeli occupation, either directly investing in businesses that support Israel’s apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza, or buying large amounts of products from companies that support the occupation.

Dell Technologies Inc. supplies servers and related equipment to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and military, including a $150 million tender funded by US foreign aid. Dell also participates in the National Cyber Park in the Naqab, receiving financial incentives for R&D activities.

Does your workplace or school invest in Israeli products or other Israeli ventures?

Military Partnerships

  • 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. The scope of the tender is over $150 million and was funded by US foreign aid, provided by the United States to Israel.

  • Between 2016 and 2021, Dell owned the majority stake in former subsidiary VMware. In 2016, VMware signed an agreement with the Israeli MoD for the implementation of VMware systems for the military and other security bodies for over $275,000, from 2016 to 2019. The agreement allowed the military to use the company's systems and products for all its new and future technological projects almost without limitation. In addition, the agreement included licensing packages for new products, maintenance service, assimilation and training for several years. About half of the amount is designated for ongoing maintenance of virtual systems that were previously implemented in the military and other security bodies, and half is for the benefit of implementing systems in the new projects.

  • In 2019, the Israeli MoD published a tender for the purchase of Dell laptop computers.

  • In August 2018, Dell personnel accompanied and mentored a military Hackathon for officers of the Computer and IT Directorate and cyber defense units in the Naqab.

  • In 2013, Dell was one of several companies chosen to take part in the Israeli MoD project for the establishment of a military technology security facility in the Naqab as part of the military’s relocation to the south project. Dell's fully-owned subsidiary, EMC Israel Advanced Information Technologies, is part of the National Cyber Park in the Naqab.

Major donations to groups and offices complicit in Israeli war crimes

  • In 2014, CEO Michael Dell donated $1.8 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

What you can do

  • Vote with your dollars!

    Refuse to buy Dell products and encourage your loved ones to do the same.

  • If you are in paid employment, are you part of a union? If you are get in touch with your representative or your union as a whole and bring to their attention any Israeli product that your workplace, ask them to include divestment from Israeli products as part of future collective bargaining in your workplace.

  • Find out if your school is supporting Israeli products, if they are, talk to your student representatives about bringing divestment from Israeli products to the table when speaking with governing bodies. Or you can speak with the governing bodies at your school yourself, either by sending them a letter or speaking to them in person or on the phone.

  • If your employer is investing in Israeli products/venture and you feel comfortable enough to do so, have a conversation with your employer about the importance of divesting from Israel. Consider bringing up the potential optics of complicity in a genocide.

  • Did you go into a building for a service and see that they are using Israeli products such as Dell? Bring it up to them, inform them of the brand's complicity in Israel’s crimes and make it clear to them that as a customer/client/member of the public, this makes you uncomfortable. Consider making a complaint.