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Google fires more employees protesting giant deal with Israel

Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:24 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 23 April 2024 11:24 AM ]

Google employees demand the company terminate its contract with Israel at a protest on April 16, 2024. (Photo by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid)

Google has fired about 20 more employees over recent protests against a deal between the US technology giant and Israel.

The activist group No Tech for Apartheid said on Monday that the new layoffs bring to more than 50 the total number of Google workers dismissed in the past week.

“The corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers and reassert its power over them,” said Jane Chung, a spokesperson for No Tech for Apartheid.

BREAKING—@Google has engaged in retaliation against 20+ additional workers, including non-participating bystanders at last week’s historic sit-ins, bringing the total to ***50 workers***that Google has shamefully retaliated against. https://t.co/ar23XygEZQ
— No Tech For Apartheid (@NoTechApartheid) April 22, 2024

Meanwhile, a Google spokesperson confirmed the company had sacked more employees after continuing its investigation into the April 16 anti-Israel demonstrations, which included sit-ins at offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California.

The protesters held posters reading, “No More Genocide For Profit,” “No cloud apartheid,” “We Stand with Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Googlers” and “Don’t be evil, stop retaliation”.

They denounced Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract awarded to Google and Amazon to supply the Israeli regime with cloud computing services.

The contract dates back to 2021. However, the protests followed a report in Time magazine earlier this month, citing an internal company document, that the Israeli ministry of military affairs is a Google Cloud customer.

No Tech for Apartheid said the report showed that Google had “built custom tools” for the Israeli ministry of military affairs and had “doubled down on contracting” with the regime’s army after the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip began.

Israel waged its brutal war on the besieged Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 34,183 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 77,143 others.

Since the start of the onslaught, the US, Israel's most dedicated ally, has fast-tracked arms shipments to the occupying regime and blocked UN resolutions that called for a Gaza truce.

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