When Oracle married the IDF

The role of Oracle, the huge US tech company, is too rarely examined. It’s also deeply involved with the Israeli state and military.

In a new piece by British journalist Carole Cadwalladr in The Nerve, I talk about these ties:

Ellison’s company, Oracle, is, according to Antony Loewenstein, the author of The Palestine Laboratory, “an integral part of the Israeli military”. It built Israel’s first cloud services and its partner Rafael Systems is one of Israel’s biggest military companies. It makes the deadly spike missiles that are believed to have killed seven aid workers, including three Britons, in April 2024. It also built Israel’s formidable Iron Dome. 

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But above all, Oracle’s technology is playing a critical role in the Israeli military’s tech stack. Antony Loewenstein – author of The Palestine Laboratory and an expert on Israel’s relationship with Silicon Valley tech companies and how they are using Gaza to test and train new technology products – calls Oracle’s backing of Israel “both financial and ideological”.

He calls it an “integral” part of the Israeli military with the IDF using Oracle’s cloud services company and employees “training Israeli officials in how to use its cloud services”. 

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