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Google employee fired for shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at company event

Google employee fired for shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at company event

Google recently fired an engineer after the employee expressed anti-Israel sentiments during the Israeli tech industry conference, Mind The Tech, in New York. During a speech by Barak Regev, Google’s CEO in Israel, the employee publicly protested against Google’s collaboration in Project Nimbus, the Israeli military’s cloud computing project.  “I’m a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance,” he shouted before being… Source link

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Google Employee Fired After Protesting Against Israel

Google Employee Fired After Protesting Against Israel

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google confirmed it fired an employee who protested publicly against Israel. The worker stood and shouted during a presentation by Google Israel’s managing director. The employee was protesting Project Nimbus, Google’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel’s government. A Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now out of a job. The employee… Source link

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