Does Palantir support Israel?

In the days after the October 7 Hamas attack, Palantir took out a full-page ad in The New York Times declaring that it "stands with Israel" and posted on X (October 16, 2023): "Palantir stands with Israel... Certain kinds of evil can only be fought with force." These were corporate statements, issued by the company itself.

Palantir held its first board of directors meeting of 2024 in Tel Aviv as a deliberate show of solidarity during the war, announcing: "We stand with Israel. The board of directors of Palantir will be gathering in Tel Aviv next week for its first meeting of the new year." CEO Alex Karp said the company had also undertaken undisclosed initiatives to assist Israel that he was proud of.

Signed a strategic partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense to supply technology — including its AIP artificial-intelligence platform — in support of war-related missions. A Palantir vice-president who attended, Josh Harris, told Bloomberg that the two sides had agreed to harness Palantir's advanced technology for war-related missions and that the partnership was intended to assist Israel's Ministry of Defense significantly with the situation in Israel. Globes, in an exclusive by Asaf Gilad on 29 January 2024, reported that CEO Alex Karp signed what it described as an upgraded agreement with the ministry at the Kirya in Tel Aviv and was photographed there with Danny Gold, head of the ministry's Directorate of Defense Research and Development (MAFAT), and that chairman and co-founder Peter Thiel was present at the signing. Globes added that Palantir expects revenues of tens of millions of dollars from the agreement — revenue flowing to the company, not money it gave. A 2026 shareholder solicitation filed with the SEC describes Palantir as a deeply embedded strategic partner of the Israel Ministry of Defense.

CEO Alex Karp said on CNBC that Palantir has lost employees over its outspoken pro-Israel position and accepted that cost: "We've lost employees. I'm sure we'll lose employees... If you have a position that does not cost you ever to lose an employee, it's not a position." Karp has called Palantir one of only a few companies publicly pro-Israel after October 7.

Has operated in Israel for roughly a decade, with a Tel Aviv office staffed largely by former Israeli government officials, and continued supplying its technology to Israel's war effort during the Gaza war. Norwegian asset manager Storebrand later divested about $24 million of Palantir stock over its Israel-related work.

Palantir Technologies, Inc.'s own federal lobbying disclosures (LDA filings; registrant and client both Palantir) name H.R. 6126, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, and "funding for software in supplemental funding bills for Israel and Ukraine" as specific lobbying issues under the Defense issue-area code (DEF) — and repeat this same line in three consecutive quarterly filings: Q4 2023 (signed 2024-01-19), Q1 2024 (signed 2024-04-22) and Q2 2024 (signed 2024-07-16). Because Palantir's core business is software, and the disclosed issue ties software funding specifically to the Israel supplemental bill, this is a distinct, named appropriations item repeated across three filing periods — not a boilerplate country-relations mention among many. Each filing's total quarterly lobbying expense ($2,550,000 / $2,010,000 / $1,260,000) covers every issue lobbied that quarter (also NDAA, DoD appropriations, IT acquisition reform, AI regulation, aviation and health-policy items), so no dollar amount can be isolated to the Israel-specific line; the filings state only that Palantir lobbied Congress on it, not a motive or a sum.