Increasing pressure on international universities and companies to end their relations with “Israel”

Berlin, (ST) –  With the expansion of protests against the genocide crimes committed by “Israel” in Gaza Strip, many well-known American universities and international companies found themselves facing increasing pressure from their students and workers who demand ending relations with the occupying entity and stoppibg investments that facilitate supporting this entity’s operations.

The German Deutsche Welle website shed light on the interactions and expansion of the global protest movement against the crimes of the occupation in Gaza.

From American universities and the student protests there, to European universities, all the way to large companies, the extent of the sit-ins becomes longer every day, and the circle of involvement in the political reality in them expands.

Just as many American university administrations dealt with such protests through repression, threats, arrests by the police, and the dismissal of professors and students, the treatment of companies was characterized by the same features. For example, Google fired 50 of its employees last month after they participated in a pro-Palestinian sit-in, as was the case with Apple that took a similar step by firing 300 employees for the same reason.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to justify this step, according to the Deutsche Welle website, by saying: The company is a business and not a place to act in a way that disrupts co-workers,” while the fired employees filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board in the United States.

The sit-in, in which a number of Google employees participated, was organized by the “No Technology for Apartheid” movement, which consists of employees working at Google and Amazon who oppose the joint “Nimbus Project” between the two companies to provide services to the Israeli occupation entity.

Raghda Sawas