BDS — Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide is well documented, exposing its strong ties to the Israeli military, its collaboration with Israeli government ministries, and its involvement in the Israeli prison system, which is notorious for systematic torture and abuse of Palestinians. Microsoft knowingly provides Israel with technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), that is deployed to facilitate grave human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity (including apartheid), as well as genocide. Microsoft provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services that are crucial to empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. Microsoft’s extensive ties with Israel’s military are revealed in investigations by The Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, demonstrating how the Israeli military turned to Microsoft to meet the technological demands of genocide. The BDS movement, in collaboration with allied Microsoft workers (No Azure for Apartheid) are calling for pressure on Microsoft wherever possible when reasonable alternatives exist, including boycotting Microsoft’s Xbox and gaming, cutting institutional contracts with Microsoft and divesting from the company.