Google fired 28 employees for protesting over the firm’s $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government.
According to reports, a sit-in protest was organised by the employees at two offices’ in New York and Sunnyvale with Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, issuing a memo to all employees, stating that such behavior violates multiple company policies.
“They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made coworkers feel threatened,” reads the memo.
However, the activist group "No Tech for Apartheid," which has been vocal against Project Nimbus for three years, called the firings a "flagrant act of retaliation."
The protests were a peaceful attempt to engage with the company about the Nimbus project and that the dismissals were an unfair response to employees exercising their right to protest, it said.
Earlier, an employee was also dismissed for protesting the same project during a company presentation in Israel.
At least 33,899 Palestinians have been killed and 76,664 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of captives held in Gaza.