{"id":2195714,"date":"2024-03-09T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T21:17:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T03:17:30","slug":"exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Google employees use &#8216;International Women&#8217;s Day&#8217; event to criticize Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2195714&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Google Employees Hijack International Women&#8217;s Day Event \u2063to Attack Israel<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a \u200cshocking turn \u2064of events, hundreds of Google employees used an International Women&#8217;s Day event as \u2063a platform to launch \u2063an attack\u2062 on Israel and accuse Jews\u2064 of victimizing \u2062themselves. Screenshots \u200dobtained by The Daily Wire \u2062reveal the\u200b extent of this \u200cdisturbing behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event, which was meant to celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day, was supposed to \u2063feature on-topic audience questions submitted through an\u2062 internal platform called Dory. However, instead of \u2064relevant questions, Google employees\u2063 took the opportunity\u200c to submit commentary bashing Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The trend\u2063 was started by Google \u2063software\u200d engineer Joelle Skaf, who urged the company to \u200d&#8221;avoid complicity in war crimes&#8221; and\u200b &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-charity-strapped-with-major-legal-and-cash-woes-three-years-after-riots\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter charity faces legal and financial troubles three years after riots.\">stop taking money<\/a> from the Israeli government.&#8221; Skaf&#8217;s comments received\u200c over 500 upvotes from fellow employees on\u2064 Dory, which allows participants to upvote or downvote their colleagues&#8217; questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zaynab Hararah, a Google Risk \u2063and Compliance Senior \u2062Advisor, also joined in, accusing her colleagues of \u200bbeing complicit in \u200b&#8221;the ethnic\u200d cleansing of\u2063 Palestinians&#8221; and victimizing themselves with &#8220;feelings\u2064 of unsafety and anti-Semitism.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_707297\" style=\"width: 776px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-707297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joelle Skaf started the trend by Google employees\u200c of derailing a platform to submit questions\u200d about \u200bInternational Women\u2019s Day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These\u200c incidents of anti-Semitism within Google come at a time when\u2063 the tech giant is already facing backlash over discriminatory\u2063 behavior by its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-search-will-soon-receive-ai-upgrade-as-company-scrambles-to-release-chatgpt-competitor\/\" title=\"Google Search Will \u2018Soon\u2019 Receive AI Upgrade As Company Scrambles To Release ChatGPT Competitor\">artificial intelligence product<\/a>, Gemini. Critics\u2064 argue \u2063that the product&#8217;s \u2064diversity-obsessed image \u200cgenerator, which has been\u2064 labeled &#8220;anti-white,&#8221; is a result of the political biases of its creators employed by \u200bGoogle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last month, The Daily Wire reported on internal anti-Semitic incidents at Google,\u2063 including instances of\u2062 anti-Semitic graffiti\u2062 found in their offices \u200cand\u200b a Jewish employee \u2064being assaulted by\u200d anti-Israel protesters on one of their campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After\u200d Google closed the forum and deleted the &#8220;off-topic&#8221; questions, Skaf and others continued\u200c their commentary in another internal \u2064chat with over 2,200 participants, according to internal screenshots.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One anonymous employee expressed their fear as a Jewish \u200dperson working at \u2064Google, stating, &#8220;We, Jewish people, are afraid at work. A large, multinational \u2062tech firm that supposedly hires the best and brightest people, and\u2062 I and\u2062 my Jewish colleagues have\u200d to worry about what we&#8217;ll encounter when we go to the cafeteria \u2063or if the \u2064agenda of a discussion group might be hijacked with anti-Semitic content.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The employee\u2064 added, &#8220;It&#8217;s not something I thought \u2063we&#8217;d feel in our\u2064 generation, it&#8217;s something our grandparents&#8217; generation had to \u200bdeal \u2064with.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_707295\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-707295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google \u2063employee\u200c Zaynab Hararah accused\u2063 her colleagues of \u2062victimizing themselves\u2064 &#8220;with feelings\u2063 of unsafety\u200b and\u200d anti-Semitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A\u200d Google spokeswoman\u200d confirmed the incident, condemning the \u2064&#8221;off-topic\u200c and divisive questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were pleased to host an event\u2063 to\u2064 celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day,&#8221; the spokeswoman said. &#8220;Unfortunately, before the event, a series of off-topic and divisive questions and comments were\u2062 posted to internal forums. Our internal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitch-slammed-for-tweeting-womxns-history-month\/\" title=\"Twitch Slammed For Tweeting \u2018Womxn\u2019s History Month\u2019\">community guidelines<\/a> team routinely removes divisive content \u2062that\u2063 is disruptive to\u200b our workplace, and \u200cdid that here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other comments\u2063 submitted by employees questioned how\u200b the company could celebrate\u2063 International Women&#8217;s Day while working with Israel.\u200d Moe Adel, a Google software engineer, raised \u200cthe issue of\u200b supporting the summit&#8217;s theme, &#8220;Her Power, Her Voice,&#8221; while \u2062&#8221;ignoring the cries \u2064for help from Palestinian \u200dwomen who have been systematically deprived of their fundamental human\u2064 rights.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fayssal Martani, another Google software engineer, criticized Gemini, the company&#8217;s AI product, for\u2064 its biased responses. Martani asked if women \u2064in Gaza deserve human \u200crights, to which\u2064 the AI tool told her to &#8220;look it up \u200conline.&#8221; Martani questioned Google&#8217;s \u2063reputation and\u200b bias in its \u2064tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khaled Monsoor, \u2063a Google engineer, accused the\u2062 Israel \u200dDefense Forces of\u200c deliberately killing over 8,500 civilian women in Gaza, referring to it as an &#8220;open-air concentration camp.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_707329\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-707329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several Google \u200cemployees submitted questions \u2063for the company&#8217;s International Women&#8217;s Day summit that were\u2062 taken\u2064 down for being irrelevant to the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I \u2064don&#8217;t\u2062 expect \u200cmuch from the leadership because they&#8217;re continuing to be aligned with US \u200cforeign policy,&#8221; Monsoor wrote, drawing \u200ca parallel to\u200c IBM&#8217;s collaboration with Germany during \u200dWorld \u200dWar II.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many employees\u2064 also expressed concerns about Project Nimbus, a\u2063 cloud computing project involving\u2062 the Israeli government and\u2064 the Israeli Defense Forces. They questioned whether\u200d their work at Google has contributed \u200cto \u2064the harm of Palestinians in\u200d Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The manager of Google Israel, Barak Regev, was even\u2063 interrupted during a speech by an engineer who\u200b shouted that\u200c he refuses &#8220;to build technology that powers genocide,\u2064 apartheid, or surveillance.&#8221;\u2062 The \u200ddisruptor was escorted \u2063out by\u200c security.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Google\u200b Cloud engineer just interrupted Google Israel managing director Barak Regev at\u200d Israeli \u200btech industry conference MindTheTech this morning in NY.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I refuse to build technology \u200bthat\u2063 powers genocide!&#8221; he yelled, referring\u200b to\u200d Google&#8217;s Project Nimbus \u2063contract <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vM9mMFlJRS\">pic.twitter.com\/vM9mMFlJRS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caroline\u2062 Haskins (@car0linehaskins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/car0linehaskins\/status\/1764681078206337434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u200cGoogle \u200dspokesperson \u2062acknowledged the \u2064disruptive\u2063 behavior and stated that the employee\u2064 responsible was terminated for violating company policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How can Google reinforce its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ticket-giant-eventbrite-abruptly-deplatforms-anti-child-mutilation-event-claiming-it-would-violate-hate-speech-policy\/\" title=\"Eventbrite drops anti-child mutilation event, citing 'hate' speech policy.\">community \u2064guidelines<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-says-abortions-for-nonviable-pregnancies-should-be-banned\/\" title=\"Pence advocates banning abortions for nonviable pregnancies.\">implement stricter measures<\/a> to prevent the spread of hate and discriminatory\u2063 behavior among its employees<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ing to them as &#8220;genocidal\u2062 maniacs.&#8221; This \u2064baseless \u2064accusation\u2064 not \u2062only\u2064 spreads hate and misinformation\u200b but also undermines \u2063the credibility of the employees representing\u200b Google.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is deeply concerning that a company like\u2062 Google, which prides itself on diversity and inclusion, \u200dhas employees \u2064who use an event meant\u2063 to empower \u2063women \u2064as a\u200c platform to \u2063propagate their personal biases and attack a specific country \u2063and its people. This behavior not only creates a hostile work environment but also tarnishes the reputation of Google \u200cas an inclusive and ethical company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incidents at Google \u2063are particularly troubling considering the rise of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide. \u2064Anti-Semitism has no place in society, and it is crucial \u200cfor companies like\u200c Google to \u2064take \u200ca strong stance against such behavior and ensure the safety and well-being of all their employees, especially \u2062those who identify as Jewish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While freedom of speech is an essential right, it \u200bshould not be used as a license \u2064to spread hate or engage in discriminatory behavior.\u200d Google should reinforce \u200cits community guidelines and implement stricter measures\u200c to prevent such incidents from recurring. This includes educating employees about the consequences of their actions, promoting tolerance and understanding, and encouraging open and\u200c respectful dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, it is\u200b essential for Google to address the concerns raised by its employees regarding its products,\u2064 such as Gemini, and ensure \u2063that\u200b they do not perpetuate biases or discriminatory practices. The company must prioritize diversity and inclusion not only in its workforce but also in its technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In conclusion, \u2064the hijacking of an International Women&#8217;s Day \u200bevent by Google employees to\u2063 attack Israel and propagate anti-Semitic narratives\u200d is a disturbing and unacceptable incident. It highlights the need for companies to foster an environment of respect, tolerance, and inclusivity. Google must take immediate \u200caction to address these issues and reaffirm its\u2064 commitment to diversity, inclusion, and ethical \u200dpractices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google employees hijacked an International Women\u2019s Day event, using it as a platform to attack Israel and accuse Jews of playing the victim. 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