{"id":2222866,"date":"2024-04-16T23:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:24:51","slug":"google-employees-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Google employees were detained during a protest inside the CEO&#8217;s office advocating for anti-Israel causes"},"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\">30<\/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-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands%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=2222866&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 occupying \u200dthe office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian to demand an \u2062end to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">business ties<\/a>\u200c with Israel were arrested\u200b after an 8-hour occupation. Livestreamed\u2062 on Twitch, they were given \u200bthe option to leave\u2064 but\u200d refused. The protests were over Google&#8217;s contracts\u2062 with Israel and treatment of\u200d Palestinian\u2064 and Muslim employees, outlined 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>. Google employees were arrested after an 8-hour occupation of the office of Google Cloud CEO\u2063 Thomas Kurian, demanding an end to business ties with Israel. Livestreamed on \u200cTwitch, they refused \u200cthe option to leave. The protests centered around Google&#8217;s contracts\u200c with Israel and treatment \u200dof Palestinian and Muslim\u2063 employees, highlighted in\u2062 internal emails.  <\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google employees who occupied the California office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian for more than eight hours to demand the company stop doing business with Israel were arrested late Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The employees broadcast their protest on a \u201cnotech4apartheid\u2019 Twitch livestream. The video showed they given the opportunity to leave voluntarily, and then arrested by police after refusing to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the stream, a man is seen approaching the protesters to notify them that they were put on administrative leave and asking them to leave. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Google employees were arrested after occupying their boss&#8217;s office for more than 8 hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W4WQO8NNgH\">pic.twitter.com\/W4WQO8NNgH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassyDillon\/status\/1780424513810812967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s getting kinda late,\u201d the man says. \u201cI wanted to ask you, you know, to cooperate, you\u2019ve been placed on admin leave and we\u2019d like to see if you\u2019d just voluntarily [leave] it\u2019s been a while. Can you do that for us?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he threatens to call law enforcement, employees state that they understand. Seconds later, police walk in the office and detain them all before the livestream cuts off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped\">were announced<\/a> in internal emails to employees that shared a list of demands, including that Google drop its $1.2 billion contract with Israel for Project Nimbus, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped\/\" title=\"Google employees stage a sit-in at CEO's office demanding termination of contract with Israel\">cloud-computing project<\/a> of the Israeli government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organized by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notechforapartheid.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No Tech for Apartheid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the protesters claim they will remain in the office until Google drops Project Nimbus and heeds the other demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-Semitism appears to be rampant throughout Google\u2019s workforce. In February, The Daily Wire <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kill-all-jews-google-grapples-with-internal-anti-semitism-in-months-since-hamas-attack\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  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 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that a group of employees attempted to hijack an International Women\u2019s Day event to bash Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\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 protesters write in a letter to Kurian. \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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Protests also took place at other Google offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google employees, occupying Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian&#8217;s California office for over eight hours demanding the company end ties with Israel, were arrested on Tuesday. The protest was livestreamed on &#8220;notech4apartheid&#8221; Twitch. 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