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Google has fired more than two dozen employees who protested this week against the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.

The workers were dismissed after an investigation found that they had staged protests inside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. In Sunnyvale, they entered the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, according to a post on social media by the group that organized the demonstration, No Tech For Apartheid.

Protesters held banners that read “No More Genocide For Profit” and “We Stand with Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Googlers.”

A Google spokesperson told CNN Thursday that the protests “were part of a long-standing campaign by a group of organizations and people who largely don’t work” at the company.

“A small number of employee protesters entered and disrupted a few of our locations. Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior. After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety,” the spokesperson added.

“We have so far concluded individual investigations that resulted in the termination of employment for 28 employees, and will continue to investigate and take action as needed.”

Google and Amazon have a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military, known as Project Nimbus, according to No Tech For Apartheid, who have strongly condemned the dismissals.

“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 group said in a statement published on Medium Thursday.

Israel has rejected claims it is committing genocide in Gaza, arguing that it is fighting its war against Hamas in self-defense. Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages.
Google Cloud and Israel

Google Cloud’s contract with the Israeli government dates back to 2021, when the company announced that it had been chosen to provide “public cloud services to help address the country’s challenges within the public sector, including in healthcare, transportation, and education.”

But the protests followed a report in Time magazine earlier this month, citing an internal company document, that Israel’s Ministry of Defense is a Google Cloud customer.

According to Time, the ministry has its own secure entry point to Google-provided computing infrastructure, which would allow it to store and process data, and access artificial intelligence services. Earlier this year, the ministry also sought consulting assistance from Google to expand its Google Cloud access, Time reported.

No Tech for Apartheid said the article showed that Google had “built custom tools” for the Ministry of Defense and had “doubled down on contracting” with Israel’s military since the war broke out.

The Google spokesperson said Google Cloud “supports numerous governments around the world, including the Israeli government.”

“We have been very clear that the Nimbus contract is for workloads running on our commercial cloud by Israeli government ministries, who agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. This work is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services,” the spokesperson added.

Separately, Google confirmed that it is making an unspecified number of fresh layoffs as part of an internal reorganization. The job cuts will not be company-wide, and impacted employees will be able to apply for other open roles across Google.

Google laid off hundreds of employees earlier this year, adding to a wave of job cuts in the tech and media industries, including at Amazon, Vice and the Los Angeles Times.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/18/tech/google-fires-employees-israel



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd4QyYLJ8Ro

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Good one Google, I like that! You’re just an employee yet decided to sabotage your company management for their own policies?

Foolish people, they should go and work for Hamas or Hizbollah then.

More pictures from the protest

modafuckas good for them.
Some wicked people don't protest when Israel is been hit they only protest when Israel retaliate.
If I am google management any body that say a pin or even as like a page that has to do with negativity against Israel is sacked without benefit s.

Then they went inside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California and staged a sit-in protest.....



These ones were obviously tired of their job😅😅😅

That's the beauty of freedom. You have a right to protest just as the employer has a right to terminate your employment.

Maybe they forgot that Jews run the show in America, especially in the tech sector. Google the number of global US companies founded by Jews and you'll be lost in thought. That's the power of influence. I'm not pro-Israel's war in Gaza — just pointing out the fact.

MODIFIED: Facebook, Oracle, Dell, and Google itself, just to mention the most popular.

I don't care if Israel or Palestine or even Iran is wrong, but one thing I can say is before you go all out and only declare your opinions on any trending issue, know what your employers stand on that same issue.
In some small companies an issue as trivial as football clubs rivalry can make your boss start despising you.

That's their reward and very good for them. Yhu are protesting against yhur employer for doing the job they're paid to do. Miscreants, let them go look for another job.



Modified:
Hear the yeye song wey dem dey sing sef " Google, Google yhu can't hide, we charge yhu a genocide".

I have never seen crazier people than these ones o.

Freedom of association nko

Nice!

Good one

Serves them right

Stupid idiotic employees!!! They should not pay them a dime. Bastards!!!

On the mandate of the Israeli government we stand gidigba!

DenreleDave:
Freedom of association nko

shatap

Hmm

Good for them. I would have fired them myself. Never bring your politics or religion into the workplace. I neither care about Israel nor Palestine just to be clear.

DenreleDave:
Freedom of association nko

Protesting against someone’s private investment?

If you say Freedom of Association, you have forgotten about private property rights, workplace regulations, and google policies.

In that case, Google reserves the right to terminate their employment based on the code of conduct in the agreement they signed when being hired.

Yeye employees can now go on the protest full time

yeye people supporting a terrorist religion that can't invent them anything

Hamas and Hezbollah needs their skills. Stupid workers

Freedom of speech and demonstration is free, freedom after speech is expensive.

the only policies that matter to an employee is that of the employer. good one

Google is a firm owned by Jewish Zionist pigs, what else do the employees expect?

Where is the fairness...


The world has gone crazy

Isreal is america and america is isreal ..learn or perish ..🤔

Wen ppl de look fr job fr naija,dis one de Yankee de mumu

Violation of code of conduct.

E sharp

They should also go to hell

rentAcock:
That's the beauty of freedom. You have a right to protest just as the employer has a right to terminate your employment.

Mad oh! 😂😂😂

MuslimIgbo:
Google is a firm owned by Jewish Zionist pigs, what else do the employees expect?

E pain am.