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Support for war crimes
Publicly supporting a leader under an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, or supplying technology used in conduct that an international court or UN body has documented as war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.
5 documented facts
After attending a private gathering of US tech executives and investors hosted by Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on 28 September 2025, posted on X a photo of himself with the Israeli prime minister, then subject to an International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024, writing that he had enjoyed their discussion on AI education, that they had spoken about AI empowering everyone to build software, and that he was optimistic for peace and safety for Israel and its neighbours. The post prompted calls on social media to boycott Vercel and announcements by developers and companies that they were migrating away from it.
“Enjoyed my discussion with PM Netanyahu on how AI education and literacy will keep our free societies ahead.”
Response: Neither Rauch nor Vercel had issued a statement addressing the backlash when Middle East Eye and Calcalist reported on it on 30 September 2025.
The report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" (A/HRC/59/23) by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, which describes Israel's campaign in Gaza as genocide, names Alphabet (Google) among the companies giving Israel near government-wide access to cloud and AI technologies. It states that Israel awarded Alphabet and Amazon the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract in 2021, largely funded through Ministry of Defense expenditure, and that the Project Nimbus consortium supplied critical cloud and AI infrastructure when the Israeli military's internal cloud overloaded in October 2023.
“Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision-making and surveillance and analysis capacities.”
Response: Google has said of Project Nimbus: "Our work is not directed at highly sensitive or classified military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services." Israel called the report politically motivated and legally baseless.
The report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" (A/HRC/59/23) by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, which describes Israel's campaign in Gaza as genocide, names Amazon among the companies giving Israel near government-wide access to cloud and AI technologies. It states that Israel awarded Amazon and Alphabet the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract in 2021, largely funded through Ministry of Defense expenditure, and that the Project Nimbus consortium supplied critical cloud and AI infrastructure when the Israeli military's internal cloud overloaded in October 2023. A 2024 +972 Magazine investigation reported that the Israeli army had stored some intelligence information collected through mass surveillance of Gaza's population on servers managed by Amazon Web Services.
“Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision-making and surveillance and analysis capacities.”
Response: Asked by +972 Magazine, AWS said it was "focused on making the benefits of our world-leading cloud technology available to all our customers". Israel called the report politically motivated and legally baseless.
The report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" (A/HRC/59/23) by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, which describes Israel's campaign in Gaza as genocide, names Microsoft among the companies giving Israel near government-wide access to cloud and AI technologies. It states that when the Israeli military's internal cloud overloaded in October 2023, Microsoft, with its Azure platform, and the Project Nimbus consortium stepped in with critical cloud and AI infrastructure, and that Microsoft has integrated its systems across the Israeli military since 2003.
“Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision-making and surveillance and analysis capacities.”
Response: On 15 May 2025 Microsoft said: "we have found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people" in the Gaza conflict. On 25 September 2025, after reporting by The Guardian, it said it had "ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD)". Israel called the report politically motivated and legally baseless.
The report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" (A/HRC/59/23) by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, which describes Israel's campaign in Gaza as genocide, states that Palantir expanded its support to the Israeli military after October 2023 and that there are reasonable grounds to believe it provided predictive policing technology, defence software infrastructure and its Artificial Intelligence Platform for real-time battlefield data integration and automated decision-making. The report cites Palantir's January 2024 strategic partnership with Israel and board meeting in Tel Aviv "in solidarity", and Alex Karp's April 2025 remark "mostly terrorists, that's true" in reply to accusations that Palantir had killed Palestinians in Gaza, as indicative of executive-level knowledge.
“There are reasonable grounds to believe Palantir has provided automatic predictive policing technology, core defence infrastructure for rapid and scaled-up construction and deployment of military software, and its Artificial Intelligence Platform, which allows real-time battlefield data integration for automated decision-making.”
Response: Palantir sent the Special Rapporteur a letter dated 22 May 2025, cited in the report but not published. Israel called the report politically motivated and legally baseless, and the United States accused the Special Rapporteur of "economic warfare" against US companies.