{"id":2222621,"date":"2024-04-16T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:34:09","slug":"google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Google employees stage a sit-in at CEO&#8217;s office demanding termination of contract with 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\">28<\/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%2Fgoogle-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped%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=2222621&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--><p>Google employees are protesting Google Cloud CEO \u200cThomas Kurian&#8217;s office in California, urging \u2064the end of ties with Israel, demanding the discontinuation of Project Nimbus. Livestream shows\u200c employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-law-review-editor-identified-as-protester-cornering-jewish-student\/\" title=\"Harvard Law Review editor identified as protester confronting Jewish student.\">donning keffiyehs<\/a>. The protest seeks to end business with \u200bIsrael and address employee concerns.\u200b The group vows to\u2064 remain \u2062until demands are met.\u200c Challenges of \u2062anti-Semitism within Google are highlighted.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Google employees are actively occupying the California office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and refusing to leave until the company stops doing business with Israel, video live-streamed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-internal-facebook-survey-shows-employees-losing-confidence-in-leaders-less-than-half-plan-to-stay\/\" title=\"Report: Internal Facebook Survey Shows Employees Losing Confidence in Leaders, Less Than Half Plan to Stay\">employees shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitch livestream titled \u201cnotech4apartheid,\u201d Google employees can be seen donning keffiyehs and sitting on the floor in his office. On the 10th floor in the New York City Google office, where a simultaneous anti-Israel rally took place, employees carried anti-Israel signs, and shouted chants asking Kurian, \u201cHow many kids did you kill today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protests were announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrants-guilty-of-dui-assault-will-not-be-deported-under-biden-plan\/\" title=\"Illegal Immigrants Guilty of DUI, Assault Will Not Be Deported Under Biden Plan\">internal emails<\/a> to employees that shared a list of demands, including that Google drop its $1.2 billion contract with Israel for Project Nimbus, a cloud-computing project of the Israeli government, and the Israeli Defense Forces that contracts Google and Amazon for various services.<\/p>\n<p>Demands also include that Google cease all \u201cbusiness with the Israeli apartheid government and military,\u201d stop the \u201charassment, intimidation, bullying, and silencing,\u201d of Palestinian and Muslim employees, and address the \u201chealth and safety crisis\u201d among workers who are rattled over their labor being used to \u201cenable a genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_724495\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-724495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter sent to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, demanding the company drop its contract with Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notechforapartheid.com\/\">No Tech for Apartheid<\/a>, the protesters claim they will remain in the office until Google drops Project Nimbus and heeds the other demands.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Semitism appears to be rampant throughout Google\u2019s workforce. In February, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kill-all-jews-google-grapples-with-internal-anti-semitism-in-months-since-hamas-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on internal anti-Semitic incidents taking place at Google, including the words \u201ckill all Jews\u201d found written on a bathroom wall inside its offices, and a Jewish employee being assaulted by anti-Israel protesters on one of their campuses. The Daily Wire also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that a group of employees attempted to hijack an International Women\u2019s Day event to bash Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy choosing to provide the Israeli government and military with our powerful cloud computing and AI technologies, we have continuously enabled Israel\u2019s apartheid state in Palestine and ongoing genocide in Gaza,\u201d the letter states. \u201cWhen our Palestinian, Arab and Muslim colleagues have spoken out against the contract and their conditions of labor through \u2018appropriate\u2019 channels, Google leadership has allowed them to be harassed, doxxed, and retaliated against.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_724479\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-724479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google employees in New York and California protested the company\u2019s Project Nimbus contract with Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYears of being silenced, ignored and lied to by leadership has confirmed to us as workers that our concerns will not be heard without significant action, and as you read this, we are sitting in the office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, until our demands are met,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>An email sent by employee Kate Sim stated that she is joining her coworkers in \u201can act of civil resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you read this, I and many others are participating in a sit-in in front of the office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, in Sunnyvale,\u201d Sim wrote in an email obtained by The Daily Wire. She also posted a photo of the protest on Twitter with employees holding anti-Israel signs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HAPPENING NOW<\/p>\n<p>I am with my google coworkers to say DROP PROJECT NIMBUS <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoTechApartheid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NoTechApartheid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j9J1yy2C1P\">https:\/\/t.co\/j9J1yy2C1P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not another nickel, not another dime, not another tech for genocide. We will not stand by as our work aids and abets the apartheid <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DasxkTYPim\">pic.twitter.com\/DasxkTYPim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. KS (@katejsim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katejsim\/status\/1780274105830543549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sim\u2019s email accuses Google leadership of lying about the purpose of\u00a0 Project Nimbus, attributing a statement to Google CEO Sundar Pichai stating he is \u201cproud to be doing Project Nimbus as a partner to like-minded governments that share democratic values around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur leadership continued to insist even when Google Photos was named as a weapon of war aiding and abetting target identification systems,\u201d Sim wrote. \u201cOur execs have blatantly lied to us, as they continue war profiteering from this AI-powered war \u2013 a deplorable use of innovative technology condemned by UN experts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The employee accuses Google of profiting off of genocide, and states that during the last six months she \u201csaw how AI-powered military technology are killing children at an unprecedented scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sim, who works on the child safety team, said she can\u2019t \u201chelp but wonder what it means to do child safety work, when the technologies we help create, safeguard, and use are being used to aid and abet this scale of destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sim\u2019s email linked to a Google document that included a letter to Kurian that accuses Google of enabling \u201capartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoin me and thousands of other workers, to demand that Google to drop [sic] Project Nimbus. Together, in our hundreds and millions, we can stop this and one day, there will be a free Palestine and a world that is more humane, safe, and just.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sim sent her email to Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s CEO, and thousands of other teams, executives, and employees.<\/p>\n<p>Sim\u2019s Twitter is filled with months of overt anti-Israel activism in the wake of Hamas\u2019s brutal massacre of more than 1,000 Israelis, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katejsim\/status\/1714663806939570644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including encouraging<\/a> a shoe to be thrown at President Joe Biden after he tweeted that Israel is not alone. On December 7, she accused Israeli women of lying about being raped by terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not be swayed by karens and their crocodile imperial feminism against rape,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cIt plays right into long tradition of yt women weaponizing femininity\/motherhood to discipline\/punish men of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_724475\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-724475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google employee Kate Sim accused Israeli women of lying about being raped by Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Employee Rania Ibrahim also sent a similar email announcing her participation in the protests, claiming that she \u201cwitnessed six months of live-streamed murder, forced displacement, and destruction of culture in Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor protests began at 2 PM ET and 11 PM ET in the New York City, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Seattle offices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6966102\/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time reported<\/a> on a version of the Nimbus Contract that showed the Israeli Defense Forces are able to use AI services and store and process data through a \u201csecure entry point\u201d to Google\u2019s computing infrastructure. The contract reportedly shows the IDF was billed over $1 million for consulting services by Google.<\/p>\n<p>The manager of Google Israel, Barak Regev, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel\">interrupted<\/a> by a Google employee during a speech last month, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-school-calls-police-on-parents-for-protesting-masking-and-segregation-of-children\/\" title=\"Arizona School Calls Police On Parents for Protesting Masking And Segregation Of Children\">employee stating<\/a> that he refuses \u201cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel\/\" title=\"Google employees use 'International Women's Day' event to criticize Israel\">build technology<\/a> that powers genocide, apartheid or surveillance.\u201d The disruptor was escorted out by security.<\/p>\n<p>Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google employees occupy Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian&#8217;s California office, demanding the end of business with Israel. A livestream, titled \u201cnotech4apartheid\u201d on Twitch, shows employees in keffiyehs staging a sit-in. 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