The Palestinian human rights movement Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is calling for a boycott of HP-branded corporations.
According to the campaign group "HP Enterprise (HPE) continues to provide servers, data storage and data security services for Israel's prisons, where Palestinian political prisoners and child prisoners are held hostage in inhumane conditions and are often tortured. In April 2024, for instance, in the midst of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, Hewlett Packard Israel was contracted by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to be the sole supplier providing HPE equipment maintenance for approx. $97,650 for one year."
HPE also provides and maintains the servers of Israel’s ID card system, which “forms a core part of the Israeli apartheid regime’s tiered system of citizenship and residency that privileges Israel’s Jewish population and gives inferior status and rights to Palestinians, especially those in East Jerusalem”. And HP Inc. provides computer hardware to the Israeli army and it maintains data centers for Israel’s police.
In July 2024 the BDS movement said it was calling for an "Escalation of all BDS campaigns against Israel, and in particular the #BoycottHP".