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Google Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel

Dozens of Google employees just learned they can't treat corporate offices like a college campus. On Wednesday, the Alphabet subsidiary rushed to fire 28 employees who were part of Tuesday sit-in protests against the company's provision of Artificial Intelligence and cloud services to the State of Israel.

The protests were organized by a group called No Tech for Apartheid, which had declared Tuesday a "day of action" at Google. At issue: Google's Project Nimbus a $1.2 billion cloud and AI contract with Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces' use of Google Photos in Gaza, "which has led to the arrest, imprisonment, and torture of thousands of Palestinians with little to no evidence," the group said. "It’s clear that the Israeli military will use any technology available to them for genocidal means."

No Tech for Apartheid condemned the terminations. “This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers—the ones who create real value for executives and shareholders,” the group said in a statement.

Last month, Google axed this engineer who interrupted a speech being delivered by an Israeli-based Google executive at a tech conference in New York City:

“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.”

A Pro-Palestine Google Cloud engineer disrupted Barak Regev, Google Israel managing director During a tech conference held in New York City.

The worker protested Project Nimbus, a contract to sell technology that could be… pic.twitter.com/pjWF3koatp

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) March 5, 2024

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