Good Riddance! Another antisemitic idiot learning a harsh lesson.
Google fires engineer who disrupted NYC Israel tech event claiming company is ‘powering genocide’
https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/business/google-fires-engineer-who-claimed-company-powering-genocide/
now let's look at how the NYCompost gaslights boomers into accepting the Israel/ADL propaganda line that "anyone that criticizes Israel is an antisemite"
Google has fired an employee who publicly protested the company’s work for the Israeli military. During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, the now-former Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.”
Google confirmed the firing,
which was first reported by CNBC, in an email to
The Verge. “Earlier this week, an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation — interfering with an official company-sponsored event,” Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson says in an emailed statement. “This behavior is not okay, regardless of the issue, and the employee was terminated for violating our policies.”
The incident occurred at Mind the Tech,
an annual Israeli tech conference in New York, during a presentation from Google Israel managing director Barak Regev.
The engineer was protesting Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract for access to cloud services from Google and Amazon. “Project Nimbus puts Palestinian community members in danger,” the employee said. “No cloud apartheid.” The employee was escorted out of the presentation shortly after.
Google faced pushback over its involvement in Project Nimbus when the contract was signed in 2021. Hundreds of Google and Amazon employees published an open letter to speak out against the deal, saying the technologies “allow for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians.”
No Tech For Apartheid, an organization rallying against Project Nimbus,
published a statement about the engineer’s firing on Friday.
“Google’s aims are clear: The corporation is trying to silence workers to hide their moral failings,” the organization said. “As a Cloud Software Engineer on critical technology that enables Project Nimbus to run on sovereign Israeli data centers, this worker spoke from a place of deep personal concern about the direct, violent impacts of their labor.”
Since the Israel-Hamas war broke out last October, employees have staged a “die-in” at the company’s San Francisco offices to protest the cloud services contract, and
over 600 employees signed a letter urging Google to stop sponsoring the Mind the Tech conference, according to a report from Wired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus
The contract has drawn rebuke and condemnation from the companies' shareholders as well as their employees, over concerns that the project will lead to further abuses of
Palestinians' human rights in the context of the ongoing
occupation and the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
[9][10][11][12] Specifically, they voice concern over how the technology will enable further surveillance of Palestinians and unlawful data collection on them as well as facilitate the expansion of Israel's illegal settlements on Palestinian land.[11]
Ariel Koren, who had worked as a marketing manager for Google's educational products and was an outspoken opponent of the project, was given the ultimatum of moving to São Paulo within 17 days or losing her job.[6][13] In a letter announcing her resignation to her colleagues, Koren wrote that Google "systematically silences Palestinian, Jewish, Arab and Muslim voices concerned about Google's complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights—to the point of formally retaliating against workers and creating an environment of fear," reflecting her view that the ultimatum came in retaliation for her opposition to and organization against the project.[6] She filed retaliation complaints with Google's human resources department and the
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which dismissed her case based on lack of evidence.
[6] The NLRB also found that the ultimatum predated Koren's protected activities.
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