Google fires 28 employees who protested contract with Israel

Google fired 28 employees who protested the technology giant’s contract with the government of Israela company spokesperson reported Thursday.

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The decision is related to a demonstration organized on Tuesday by the group “No Tech for Apartheid”, which has long opposed “Project Nimbus”, a joint Google contract for $1.2 billion with Amazon to provide services in the cloud to the government of Israel.

Video of the demonstration showed police arresting Google workers in Sunnyvale, California, at the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, according to a post by the group on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

Kurian’s office was busy for 10 hours. Workers held signs that read “Googlers against genocide,” in reference to accusations surrounding Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

“No Tech for Apartheid” also organized protests in New York and Seattle, according to Time magazine on April 12, which reported on a draft Google contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense for more than a million dollars for security services. consultancy.

A “small number” of employees “disrupted” the operation of some Google headquarters, but the protests are “part of a long-running campaign by a group of organizations and people who largely do not work at Google,” he said. a company spokesperson.

“After rejecting multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement agreed to remove them to ensure the safety of the office,” he added.

“We carried out individual investigations that so far resulted in the dismissal of 28 employees. We will continue to investigate and take necessary action,” he said.

Israel is one of “numerous” governments to which Google provides cloud computing services, the spokesperson also said. Its cooperation with Project Nimbus “is not directed at highly sensitive, classified or military workloads related to weapons or intelligence services,” he noted.

Source: Elcomercio

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