04/18/2024

Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal With Israel

This included nine who were removed by force by police

Wednesday, Google fired 28 employees after they participated in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel’s government that also includes Amazon.

Workers at both companies have claimed the deal makes advanced technology available to Israel’s security apparatus that could contribute to the killing or harm of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The Intercept and TIME have reported that Project Nimbus provides services that can be tapped by the Israel Defence Forces.

The twenty-eight firings, confirmed by Google, come hours after nine employees were detained by police late Tuesday for sit-in protests in the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale, California, and a company office in New York. All nine of those workers were fired, in addition to nineteen other protest participants.

Please select this link to read the complete article from WIRED.