Google fired 28 employees who took over an office in protest.
I would love to stand up and clap upon reading the headline, but my better senses told me not to.
Google recently made headlines by terminating 28 employees following a sit-in protest against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.
The controversy centers around Project Nimbus, a collaboration between Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government.
The contract includes providing cloud and AI infrastructure to Israel, which many employees argue implicates Google in alleged human rights violations.
Protests have been ongoing since 2021, but recent escalations in the Israel-Palestine conflict have intensified the backlash.
Why are Google employees so outraged?
For many, it boils down to a moral stance against what they see as the company’s complicity in actions they believe contribute to the suffering of Palestinians.
The protestors, including Google software engineer Hasan Ibraheem, claim that by supporting the Israeli military, Google is aiding what they describe as a genocide.
