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Google and Amazon workers strike over Palestine

by on09 September 2022


Getting too close to Israel 

Hundreds of Google and Amazon workers across the US walked out of work over the tech giants' recent billion-dollar deal with Israel claiming that there are anti-Palestinian sentiments at the companies.

Amazon and Google agreed 'Project Nimbus', a $1.2 billion deal to supply the Israeli government with artificial intelligence and cloud storage facilities.

Strikes against the deal and an alleged crackdown on pro-Palestinian workers at Google and Amazon are planned in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and Durham on Thursday afternoon, including the tech giants' headquarters.

It is part of a national day of action led by the #NoTechforApartheid campaign.

Joining them will be civil society leaders who are concerned about the growing relationship between big tech and the Israeli government, which implements apartheid-like policies in the occupied West Bank, according to leading human rights groups.

The action comes after Google worker Ariel Koren’s "forced resignation" last month who had called on her bosses to rethink the deal with the Israeli government.

She said she was forced out over her opposition to the Project Nimbus deal, while other colleagues have also spoken out against alleged anti-Palestinian bias in the company.

 

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