Google staffers wearing traditional Arab headscarves barged into the California office of the company’s top cloud executive, while other workers staged a sit-in at the company’s headquarters in New York City to protest the tech giant’s ties to the Israeli government on Tuesday.
They demanded that Google cancel its participation in “Project Nimbus” — a $1.2 billion contract with Israel that involves Google Cloud as well as Amazon Web Services.
The pro-Palestinian employees, part of a group called “No Tech for Apartheid,” used social media accounts on X and Twitch to post images and live video of their takeover of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud.
The activist workers read statements denouncing the company over its contract with the Israel government, which the group accuses of carrying out a “genocide” in its bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip — following the Hamas massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7.
Lol… What’s up with the “no more genocide for profit” poster? Like… It really makes you wonder why they added the “for profit”
Genocide should be a socialist endeavor.
Starting an Apartheid should not only be for the wealthy and privileged.
Seize the means of destruction!