"Microsoft provides "major services" to other Israeli ground, air, and naval forces despite widespread agreement among experts that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to the legal aid groups. The letter lists multiple examples, including Mamram, the Israeli military's central computing system and "weapons platform" that assisted the assault on Gaza with AI support and cloud services. Microsoft provided "rapid support" to Mamram during the initial months of the genocide to keep systems from crashing, according to the letter."
""Over the last few months, it has become exceedingly clear that Microsoft's services and technologies have been used to violate Palestinian human rights, and shareholders should be aware of just how much this opens up the company to legal liability," said Eric Sype, U.S. national organizer at 7amleh-The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement, in a statement on December 2."
"Microsoft is coming under mounting pressure to reconsider its relationship with the Israeli military, which has used the tech giant's products to carry out the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank."
An international coalition of legal aid groups says Microsoft and individual executives potentially face legal liability for "aiding and abetting ... atrocity crimes" by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians. Shareholders face pressure ahead of a December 5 meeting to force reconsideration of Microsoft’s relationship with Israel’s armed forces. The groups identify specific services, including support to Mamram, the Israeli military’s central computing system and "weapons platform," and note rapid cloud and AI support provided during the initial months of the Gaza assault. Protest activity and broader claims frame the conflict as heavily dependent on Big Tech tools, described as enabling an "AI-powered" campaign.
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