Google expels 28 employees who participated in a protest against its cooperation with the Israeli occupation

The American New York Post newspaper announced that Google has fired 28 of its employees due to their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, to protest Google business dealings with the Israeli occupation entity.

The newspaper reported that the employees who were subjected to dismissal criticized Google’s response to the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and published several video clips and live broadcasts of the protests on their accounts, including the moment in which they were arrested by the American police on charges of trespassing on the property of others

The protesters demanded that Google terminate the Nimbus Project contract worth $1.2 billion, under which Google provides cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli entity and its army. The protesters further expressed their fears that this technology would be used as a weapon against the Palestinians in Gaza

The employees issued a statement yesterday in which they said: “This evening, Google fired 28 workers, including those who did not directly participate in the historic sit-in protests that lasted 10 hours,” and added: “This blatant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google is interested in implementing its $1.2 billion contract with “Israel,” which is committing genocide.”
The employees continued in the statement: “Google CEO and CEO of its cloud unit Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian are beneficiaries of genocide, and we cannot understand how they are able to sleep at night, while their technology enabled the killing and wounding of 100,000 Palestinians.”

NR