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Honestly, I struggle to draw a connection between world conflict and non-military technology like Windows or cell phones or whatever.
Is every single Israeli resident complicit in what their government is doing? None of them should be allowed to use Windows? What about Israelis outside of Israel? What about people who support Israel? What about (gasp) Jews? How do you even enforce any of this without massive overreach by the companies?
Call on Microsoft or Apple all you want, ultimately I don't think a company should ban sales to customers on the argument that those customers might not have morals aligned to the company. Not that it's even possible, with world supply chains being what they are.
Umm Microsoft does sell military technology to Israel. So does Google. Idk why none of the previous commenters mentioned that. Edit: actually, they did. People are not asking for Microsoft to stop selling Windows in Israel.
Also jumping from possible restrictions on Israeli citizens (like how Iranians and Russians are treated) to Jews is a wild leap that's only used to paint criticism of Israel as having racist origin. Not saying you're doing that, but it doesn't really make sense to say this.