Cisco provides surveillance and population control technologies to the state of Israel while also building facilities on colonized Palestinian land. As WhoProfits reports:
Through its fully owned Israeli subsidiary, Cisco – Israel, Cisco Systems has a diverse portfolio of complicity with Israel’s decades’ long occupation. Cisco is involved in setting up technological hubs on occupied land, expanding visual surveillance in Jerusalem and delivering IT services to the Israeli military. Furthermore, it contributes to the structural dependency of the Palestinian economy to that of Israel through a process of outsourcing managed by its Israeli subsidiary.
Cisco used to have its Massachusetts headquarters in Boxborough, MA. According to Worcester Business Journal, Cisco obtained the 350 acres of land on which it built this Worcester campus for $1 in 2002, and then Cisco sold the property to the real estate firm Campanelli and Trigate for $10.1 million in 2021. Cisco also runs courses for high school and college-age students through its "Cisco Networking Academy." According to a company statement, 69 organizations in Massachusetts have participated in the Cisco Networking Academy.
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Cisco helped build a new data center for the state of Massachusetts. The data center was reportedly meant to "consolidate its [the state's] data center operations."
In 2016, Cisco paid Harvard Business School to produce a report about "innovation" in business. Boston-area business schools like HBS or MIT Sloan regularly get paid to produce propagandistic "position papers" for companies like Cisco.
As of 2016, MIT's internal computing/communications department (IS&T) uses Cisco's products for instant messaging. Cisco is a computing company that provides surveillance tools for the Israeli state, while building facilities on colonized Palestinian lands.
Cisco, a company which contributes to Israeli colonialism, has commissioned a study on the (so-called) "future of work" from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Cisco also participated at a Sloan School conference in 2022.