Investigating Domestic Conduct Fueling War Crimes Abroad

In partnership with Palestinian organizations and advocates, ALC is conducting investigations into non-state actors, such as corporations, who are aiding and abetting genocide, apartheid, and war crimes in Palestine. ALC will continue our investigations (that commenced in the fall of 2023) into U.S.-based non-state and corporate actors who are fueling Israel’s crimes against Palestinian people. Additionally, ALC will pursue international and domestic coordination with partners to push out public pressure and advocacy campaigns alongside its investigations.

Human Rights & Tech Justice Organizations Urge Court to Take into Account Big Tech’s Impact on Civilians in War in Amicus in Anthropic v. DOW

On March 13, 2026, Abolitionist Law Center, Access Now, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Tech Justice Law filed an amicus brief in Anthropic v. DOW highlighting the U.S. Department of War’s (“DOW,” or the Defense Department) use of Anthropic’s Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) product “Claude” in committing war crimes in the U.S.’s “Operation Epic Fury” in Iran, initiated February 28, 2026.

While Anthropic v. DOW seeks redress for the Trump administration’s retaliation against Anthropic for the company’s “red line” on using Claude for fully autonomous lethal warfare and domestic mass surveillance, our brief asserts that this claim overlooks how even the use of semi-autonomous AI, which is being used in armed conflict to further DOW Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “speed wins” ethos, fails to meaningfully assess civilian harm. AI allows the military to analyze vast amounts of surveillance and intelligence data and then near-instantaneously recommends targets to strike. This capability compresses the “kill chain” – the process of identifying someone as a combatant and therefore legitimate target for attack, tracking their movements, and ultimately killing them—from weeks or days to mere seconds. Even with human beings making the final decision to kill, when AI-enabled bombing proceeds “quicker than the speed of thought,” these decisions are little more than rubber stamps on an AI tool which Anthropic itself has admitted should not determine who lives and who dies. The result has been devastating loss of civilian life in the AI-enabled assaults on Gaza and Iran; in Iran, where DOW is using Anthropic’s Claude for its bombing campaign, over 1,200 civilians are already estimated to have been killed.

We argue that any decision in the case should underscore the fundamental humanitarian and human rights law principles that constrain both Anthropic and DOW from using AI technology to perpetrate mass casualties.

Microsoft’s Aiding of Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians Exposes Company and its Leadership to Legal Liability

On December 2, 2025, Abolitionist Law Center was joined by an international organization of legal and advocacy rights groups – Avaaz Foundation, European Legal Support Center, Centre for Research on multinational corporations (SOMO), Center for Constitutional Rights, Ekō, and GLAN (Global Legal Action Network) – in providing notice to Microsoft Corporation and its executive leadership of its potential legal liability for aiding and abetting atrocity crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian population of Gaza.

Sent just days before the company’s Annual General Meeting, the letter outlines the intimate relationship between Microsoft and the Israeli military, and the significant role the company has played in advancing, and even accelerating, Israel’s genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people of Gaza. In doing so, Microsoft, its leadership, and its individual officers are exposing themselves to criminal and civil liability for serious violations of international and U.S. domestic law.

Abolitionist Law Center Reports to UN: Amazon and Google Complicit in Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid against Palestinians

On December 3, 2024, the Abolitionist Law Center published its submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, responding to the Special Rapporteur’s call for input on the involvement of the private sector in the commission of international crimes connected to Israel’s genocide, unlawful occupation, racial segregation and apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territory. The submission details the roles of Amazon.com, Inc., and Google LLC, especially each company’s respective cloud division (Amazon Web Services, or AWS, and Google Cloud), in aiding and abetting the Israeli government’s crimes.

On June 11, 2025, the Abolitionist Law Center published an updated legal and factual analysis on the emerging role of Big Tech in state sponsored terror and oppression including recently revealed information from public reporting and during the course of our investigations of Amazon and Google’s complicity in Israel’s commission of crimes against Palestinians. Additionally, this report serves as a supplement to our latest UN submission with factual and legal analysis as to the role of other corporations in advancing human rights violations against Palestinians: Microsoft, Meta, and Elbit Systems. We raise additional concerns and call for further investigation regarding Palantir and OpenAI.