HP - Hewlett Packard
Throughout Aotearoa, many workplaces and education facilities invest in Israel 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.
HP is an example of a large brand that is used throughout Aotearoa.
HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.
In November 2015, HP split into two companies: HP Inc. for consumer hardware like PCs and printers, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP-E) for business and government services. Both HP-branded corporations remain complicit in Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
Does your workplace or school invest in Israeli products or other Israeli ventures?
What you can do
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Vote with your dollars!
Refuse to buy HP products and encourage your loved ones to do the same.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Did you go into a building for a service and see that they are using Israeli products such as HP? 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.
