Google employees led a sit-in at its headquarters to protest the tech giant’s contracts with the Israeli military and its alleged complicity in the Israel-Hamas war.
Tech workers at Amazon and Google have long protested Project Nimbus, the $1.2 billion contract Google and Amazon signed with the Israeli government and military.
Tech workers who organized the group “No Technology for Apartheid” said the Israeli military would use Google’s technology as a “genocidal instrument.”
“It is clear that the Israeli military will use any available technology to commit genocide,” the group said in a recent document. statement. “Google employees do not want their workforce to become the driving force behind Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
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Demonstrators admitted there was no evidence that the Nimbus program was being used against civilians in Gaza.
“Technology should be used to unite people, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism,” the demonstrators said.
Tech workers staged sit-ins Tuesday at Google’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington, Sunnyvale, California, and New York City.
Google employees also demanded that the company stop “harassing, threatening, bullying, silencing, and censoring Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Google employees.”
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They also ordered Google to address “health and safety issues” in the workplace resulting from “the mental health effects of working for a company that uses its workforce to enable genocide.” he demanded.
About 30 employees gathered in Sunnyvale, California, FOX 2 reported.
Demonstrators occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and read out a list of demands.
The demonstrators were seen holding placards that read “No technology for militarism.”
Emaan Hashem, a Google employee who participated in the sit-in, said his employees were fighting to protect “Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim” workers.
“We demand termination of Project Nimbus’ contract.” Hashim told FOX 2. “We call on Google executives to halt Project Nimbus now. We also demand that Arabs who have spoken out against Project Nimbus face harassment, repression, and retaliation in the workplace; We also demand that Google protect its Palestinian and Muslim employees.”
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FOX 13 video Dozens of protesters are shown gathering at Seattle’s Lake Union Park on Tuesday.
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The group waved signs as leaders called for an end to the war through megaphones.
FOX Business has reached out to Google for comment.
