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Google has fired dozens of employees who took part in anti-Israel protests that occupied its headquarters in New York and Sunnyvale, California.
Google’s vice president of global security, Chris Rakow, said in a memo to employees that 28 staff members who participated in a 10-hour sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s offices, including the personal office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, said in a memo to employees. He announced Wednesday that he was fired after trouble within the company. investigation.
“They took over office space, defaced our property, and physically interfered with the work of other Googlers,” Rackow wrote in the memo, which Google confirmed as accurate. Ta. “Their actions were unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made colleagues feel threatened.”
This memo was first reported by new york post.
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Google employees stage a sit-in at Google’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. (Apartheid has no technology/FOX News)
Jane Chan, a spokeswoman for the protest group No Tech for Apartheid, said in a press release that nine employees from offices in New York City and Sunnyvale were arrested during Tuesday’s sit-in. Several Google employees were also arrested after a sit-in inside the tech company’s offices in Sunnyvale.
Demonstrators marched into Kurian’s office to read out a list of demands, including for Google to sever ties with Israel and cancel a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government. was arrested after occupying the
The employees also demanded that the company stop “harassing, threatening, bullying, silencing, and censoring Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Googlers.”
Google has denied that the Nimbus project provides weapons or intelligence support to Israel.
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Google employees protested the tech giant’s contract with the Israeli military and the company’s alleged complicity in the Israel-Hamas war. (Apartheid has no technology/FOX News)
“Google Cloud uses publicly available cloud computing services to support numerous governments around the world in the countries where we operate, including the government of Israel,” the company said in a statement. told FOX Business.
“We are clear that the Nimbus contract is for workloads run on a commercial cloud by Israeli government ministries that agree to be subject to our Terms of Service and Terms of Service. It is not intended for sensitive, classified, military, or “weapons or intelligence-related workloads,” a Google spokesperson said.
Employees involved in the protests were investigated and had their access to Google systems blocked, according to a company-wide memo.
“This type of behavior cannot and will not be tolerated in our workplace,” Rakow wrote. Protesters who refused to leave Google’s premises were arrested and forcibly removed by law enforcement, he said.
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Rakow added that the protest violated Google’s employee code of conduct, workplace harassment, and standards of conduct policies.
“We are a business, and all Googlers are expected to read our policies and apply them to their behavior and communications at work. If you’re one of those few people, you might think you’ll overlook violations of our policies, but think again,” the memo said.
“We take this matter extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our long-standing policy of taking action against disruptive behavior, up to and including termination.”
A Google spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Business that the protests are part of a “year-long campaign by organizations and groups of people who rarely work at Google.”
On Tuesday, apartheid protesters held up a large sign reading “No Tech for Apartheid” inside Google’s headquarters in California. (Apartheid has no technology/FOX News)
“A small number of employee protesters entered several of our locations and caused disruption,” the spokesperson said. “Physically interfering with the work of other employees and preventing access to our facilities is a clear violation of our company’s policies and is completely unacceptable conduct. Law enforcement has responded to multiple requests for removal. After refusing, we engaged in the removal of employees to ensure the security of the office.”
Google has confirmed that 28 employees have been fired following an internal investigation.
A spokesperson said, “We will continue to respond as necessary.”
No Tech for Apartheid did not respond to requests for comment.
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In Sunnyvale, California, about 30 employees gathered for a protest. (Apartheid has no technology/FOX News)
Jane Chan, a spokeswoman for the protesters, condemned the shooting in a statement.
“Tonight, Google indiscriminately terminated 28 employees, including those who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic 10-hour sit-in protests on both coasts,” Google employees said in a statement. Stated.
“This flagrant act of retaliation shows that Google is paying more for $1.2 billion in contracts with the genocidal Israeli government and military than with its own workers, workers who create real value for executives and shareholders. It clearly shows what you value.”
“Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian are genocidal profiteers,” the statement said, referring to Google’s CEO and Google Cloud’s CEO, respectively.
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“Thanks to their technology, how can they be seen at night when 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, missing or injured in Israel’s massacres over the past six months, and counting? We don’t understand how you can sleep.”
According to the newspaper, an NYPD spokesperson said about 50 people participated in Tuesday’s protest and four people were arrested for illegally entering the Google building.
The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said the California protest “consisted of approximately 80 participants.” Five protesters were arrested for refusing to leave Google’s offices, the New York Post reported.
FOX Business’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
