Apple's ties to Israel are much deeper than you think

Apple's ties to Israel are much deeper than you think

From Max Blumenthal by The Grayzone

April 15, 2026 · 3 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Apple's deep ties to Israel and its implications.

By Kei Pritsker Apple’s ties to Israel are way deeper than you think. Apple made headlines last week when it basically erased Southern Lebanon from Apple Maps. If you go to Lebanon on Apple Maps, you’ll see that the names of all of the villages in the South are gone. And this is obviously the region of Lebanon that Israel is currently invading and trying to annex. A lot of people have pointed out that Apple has donated money to Zionist groups, that it fired workers for supporting Palestine, but Apple’s relationship isn’t some amorphous ideological one. Apple quite literally wouldn’t exist without the Israeli tech sector. For starters, Apple’s second largest research and development facility in the world, second only to their headquarters in Cupertino, California, is in Israel. It’s a massive campus in Tel Aviv that employs 2,500 people. The engineers there have helped develop the Macbook, Apple Watches and played a crucial role in developing the recent Apple Vision Pro, their VR headset, which features extremely precise eye-tracking, retina scanning cameras that were largely developed by Apple Israel. Apple plans to move to a new building in Israel, so they’re only planning on…

Topics covered

  • Apple
  • Israel
  • technology
  • Palestine
  • geopolitics
  • mapping
  • corporate influence

Keywords

  • Apple
  • Israel
  • technology
  • Palestine
  • Apple Maps
  • Zionist groups
  • Anobit
  • geopolitics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, Apple Maps, Zionist groups, Apple Israel, Anobit, Cupertino

Products: Macbook, Apple Watches, Apple Vision Pro

Places: Israel, Southern Lebanon, Lebanon, Tel Aviv

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