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How Microsoft Became A Hub For Israeli Intelligence
By Nate Bear | May 20, 2025
Last week Microsoft admitted providing large amounts of AI and cloud storage services to Israel during its genocide of Gaza, but said an internal investigation found no evidence the IDF "used these services to target or harm Palestinians."
This is not a serious claim and no one should take it seriously.
Just as Nazi Germany's crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel's apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft. [Editor's note: Don't forget Palantir.]
This is no surprise.
The links between Microsoft and Israel are so long, deep and extensive it can be hard to see where Microsoft ends and the Israeli state begins.
Microsoft employs more than one thousand ex-IDF soldiers and intelligence officers in its offices in Israel, and dozens of ex-IDF in its global headquarters in Redmond, Seattle, and at its offices in Miami, San Francisco, Boston and New York. My investigation, drawing on an extensive list of names provided by a source, has identified well over three hundred former Israeli intelligence personnel who are currently working at Microsoft.
Current Microsoft employees in the US who had significant roles in the IDF include:
The collaboration is long-standing and over the years Microsoft has been intensely focused on expanding its links to Israel. This focus has resulted in Microsoft buying seventeen Israeli tech companies since the year 2000, all of which were founded by former intelligence officers in the IDF's spy unit. The company spent billions on these acquisitions, and made the founders, all of whom are digital architects of apartheid, extremely rich in the process. These acquisitions also deliver billions to Israel in tax revenues, keeping an economy reliant on the IDF-to-US-tech-giant pipeline, afloat.
Microsoft's most recent acquisition of an Israeli start-up was web tracking and analytics company Oribi in 2022, whose founder, Iris Shoor, served in Israeli intelligence from 1999 to 2001.
Please go to substack to continue reading.
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How Microsoft Became A Hub For Israeli Intelligence
By Nate Bear | May 20, 2025
Last week Microsoft admitted providing large amounts of AI and cloud storage services to Israel during its genocide of Gaza, but said an internal investigation found no evidence the IDF "used these services to target or harm Palestinians."
This is not a serious claim and no one should take it seriously.
Just as Nazi Germany's crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel's apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft. [Editor's note: Don't forget Palantir.]
This week it was also revealed that Microsoft disabled the email account of the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan, impeding the court's work on executing the arrest warrant for Netanyahu and other senior Israeli leaders.
This is no surprise.
The links between Microsoft and Israel are so long, deep and extensive it can be hard to see where Microsoft ends and the Israeli state begins.
Microsoft employs more than one thousand ex-IDF soldiers and intelligence officers in its offices in Israel, and dozens of ex-IDF in its global headquarters in Redmond, Seattle, and at its offices in Miami, San Francisco, Boston and New York. My investigation, drawing on an extensive list of names provided by a source, has identified well over three hundred former Israeli intelligence personnel who are currently working at Microsoft.
Current Microsoft employees in the US who had significant roles in the IDF include:
• Jonathan Bar Or, a principal security researcher for Microsoft at its Redmond HQ. He spent six and half years in the IDF, leaving in 2015.The extensive collaboration between Microsoft and Israel, including its employment of at least one thousand Israelis, has been confirmed previously by Israel lobby groups. The full list of ex-IDF I've identified working for Microsoft in the US can be found here.
• Eitan Shteinberg, a senior manager working on Microsoft's cloud platform in its downtown Bellevue office. Shteinberg is a dedicated soldier for Israel, spending over a decade in the IDF across numerous stints. He also worked for Israeli arms company Elbit.
• Roy Rubinstein, based in Boston and who leads Microsoft’s data analytics platform Fabric. He spent over nine years in the IDF 'focused on state of the art technologies for autonomous vehicles and fast paced development for special units.'
• Joseph Berenbilt based in Pennsylvania who works on the Microsoft Azure system implicated in the genocide was 'an operator in an elite Israeli special operations combat unit.'
The collaboration is long-standing and over the years Microsoft has been intensely focused on expanding its links to Israel. This focus has resulted in Microsoft buying seventeen Israeli tech companies since the year 2000, all of which were founded by former intelligence officers in the IDF's spy unit. The company spent billions on these acquisitions, and made the founders, all of whom are digital architects of apartheid, extremely rich in the process. These acquisitions also deliver billions to Israel in tax revenues, keeping an economy reliant on the IDF-to-US-tech-giant pipeline, afloat.
Microsoft's most recent acquisition of an Israeli start-up was web tracking and analytics company Oribi in 2022, whose founder, Iris Shoor, served in Israeli intelligence from 1999 to 2001.
Please go to substack to continue reading.
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Thanks Bill, great job:
It's not a "startup nation" without outsourcing US tech jobs to Israel:
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