Google staffers storm NYC, California, Seattle offices to protest $1.2B Israel contract
Tech firms with overwhelmingly left-leaning workforces such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and others have been grappling with employee unrest over the Israel-Hamas war
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.
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. ---More...
I’m here at a Palestine protest where google employees are conducting a sit in. Demanding google end the Israeli funded project nimbus, while advocating to stop the discrimination against Palestinians, arabs and Muslim content. NYPD haven’t moved in yet due to google asking for… pic.twitter.com/mNlMv5aJSp
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