Meg Whitman, CEO and President
Hewlett-Packard Company
WW Corporate Headquarters
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185 USA
Dear Mrs Whitman,
We write this letter to you in order to express our deep concern and firm demands regarding the support provided by your company to the Israeli system of occupation and oppression, which daily violates the human rights of the Palestinian people as well as the international law.
From the information we have, HP is involved in several contracts that directly violate international law and violate Palestinians’ human rights. HP has developed and maintained the Basel System, which is used at checkpoints deep inside occupied territory to restrict and control Palestinian freedom of movement—in their own land. In other contracts with the Israeli government, military and settlements, HP is aiding and abetting international law violations and systems of segregation, this makes HP complicit with these violations.
United Nations has issued recommendations to the international companies, asking them to have an ethical behaviour and to avoid any complicity with the violation of international law. The public opinion is, as well, more and more sensitive to any complicity with human rights violations, and to any non-ethical behaviour.
We very firmly demand to the Hewlett Packard company to immediately stop all its contracts with Israel which take part to its policy of colonisation and oppression of the Palestinian people, and are expecting concrete measures from HP in this respect.
We are looking forward to your response.
ECCP – European Coordination of Committess and Associations for Palestine