Israeli companies are pretending to be American to escape the shame of the Israel brand, Paul Biggar, founder of Tech for Palestine, has uncovered. GivingTech — a “global” philanthropy fintech marketed in the US and Europe is in fact the Tel Aviv-based IsraelGives, Biggar reported. The organisation is reported to have channelled donations to Israeli military units and illegal West Bank settlements.
Biggar, the Irish founder of the developer-tools firm CircleCI, laid out his findings in a thread posted on X on 7 May. The two organisations, he wrote, were tied together by a shared chief executive, an identical logo, near-identical websites and a string of technical fingerprints, including the same Google Analytics codes and an identically-hashed stylesheet that he said could not have come about by coincidence.
Firstly, we found this because we were evaluating a partner and they used a site called https://t.co/DVAgI8yHGP. After we put a small donation through it, the new website’s title became “IsraelGives”.
But actually we had a clue before: the donation form had the IsraelGives logo… pic.twitter.com/rUqaJNKyZx
— Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 (@paulbiggar) May 7, 2026
“This is part of a trend of Israeli companies trying to rebrand their way out of genocide, occupation and boycotts,” Biggar wrote in the closing post of the thread.
IsraelGives, founded in 2009, is an Israeli charitable platform that allows donors abroad to give to Israeli causes and to receive tax receipts in 35 countries. The Israeli platform has been documented before as having processed donations from US-based donors to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, to paramilitary groups, and to Israeli military units.
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Subsequent reporting found that Google employees have been able to direct donations including company-matched ones to the platform via the corporate giving platform Benevity.
By contrast, GivingTech looks like an American firm. Its website presents the company as a global provider of fundraising software for charities, pitching its services to financial advisers, wealth managers and non-profits in the United States. Nowhere on the homepage is there any reference to Israel. According to Biggar, that is precisely the point.
“Once we started probing, the commonalities were everywhere,” he wrote. The same individual, he said, has served as chief executive of both companies concurrently for the past four years. On LinkedIn, the company is listed as headquartered in Tel Aviv. The IsraelGives website, the GivingTech website, and a third sister product, DAFtech, all share the same logo — and the same favicon.
The technical evidence, Biggar argued, was harder still to dismiss. The IsraelGives website, he wrote, loads a stylesheet named givingtech.css whose cryptographic hash is identical to the one used on the GivingTech site — meaning the two pages are, at the code level, the same file. Both sites, he added, also share the same Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity tracking identifiers, the unique codes used to monitor visitor traffic. “Another smoking gun,” he called it. “If all of that somehow doesn’t convince you, check the websites. They are nigh identical!”
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