Google Fires 28 Workers Who Protested its Contracts With Israel

Google says it terminated 28 employees associated with protests of the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine Google employees for trespassing in the company’s New York and California offices on Tuesday during an hours-long sit-in protest. No Google AI Search, I Don’t … Read more

Tech Workers Protest AI and Cloud Contracts With Israel

More than 10 workers held a sit-in on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City headquarters on Tuesday to protest Google’s ties to Israel, organizers from “No Tech for Apartheid” tell Gizmodo. The New Yorkers were joined by a simultaneous sit-in inside of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale, California. The protestors … Read more