{"id":2223723,"date":"2024-04-17T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-arrested-after-staging-protests-over-israel-in-california-and-new-york-offices\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T21:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:06:54","slug":"google-employees-arrested-after-staging-protests-over-israel-in-california-and-new-york-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-arrested-after-staging-protests-over-israel-in-california-and-new-york-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Google employees arrested for organizing protests regarding Israel in California and New York offices"},"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-arrested-after-staging-protests-over-israel-in-california-and-new-york-offices%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=2223723&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>Nine Google employees, along with demonstrators, were arrested at Google&#8217;s California and New \u200dYork offices for protesting Google&#8217;s ties \u2064with Israel. \u2064The protest\u200d included an 8-hour sit-in at Thomas Kurian&#8217;s office in Sunnyvale, California. The\u2063 employees\u200d demanded an end to\u2062 Google&#8217;s $1.2 billion contract with Israel\u2063 and raised concerns about technology being used \u2064in conflict zones. Nine Google \u2062employees \u200band demonstrators were arrested at Google&#8217;s California and\u200c New York offices for protesting\u2062 Google&#8217;s connections with\u2062 Israel. The protest involved an 8-hour sit-in\u200c at Thomas Kurian&#8217;s office in Sunnyvale, California. Employees called for terminating Google&#8217;s $1.2 \u2062billion \u2064deal with Israel and expressed worries about technology use in conflict areas.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Nine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a> employees, along with dozens of demonstrators, were arrested on Tuesday at the company\u2019s offices in California and New York for holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"protest\">protest<\/a> against Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/third-batch-of-twitter-files-shows-twitters-lead-censor-joking-about-fbi-collusion\/\" title=\"Third Batch Of Twitter Files Shows Twitter\u2019s Lead Censor Joking About FBI Collusion\">corporate relationship<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"protest\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators organized a sit-in protest for more than eight hours in the Sunnyvale, California, office of Thomas Kurian, the executive and CEO of Google Cloud.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>BREAKING: Google employees were arrested after occupying their boss&#8217;s office for more than 8 hours to demand that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands\/\" title=\"Google employees were detained during a protest inside the CEO's office advocating for anti-Israel causes\">company sever ties<\/a> with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W4WQO8NNgH\">pic.twitter.com\/W4WQO8NNgH<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassyDillon\/status\/1780424513810812967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The employees had shared in work emails that Google needed to stop its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government\u2019s cloud-computing Project Nimbus. The protesters were upset that the technology relationship helps provide facial recognition, data analysis, and object tracking, in addition to likely being used by the Israel Defense Forces in its war against Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy choosing to provide the Israeli government and military with our <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\">powerful cloud computing<\/a> and AI technologies, we have continuously enabled Israel\u2019s apartheid state in Palestine and ongoing genocide in Gaza,\u201d the protesters said in a letter.<\/p>\n<p>They added, \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<\/p>\n<p>The Google employees livestreamed their protest on Twitch.<\/p>\n<p>The video stream showed a Google official notifying the employees that they had been put on administrative leave. They were asked to leave voluntarily and were notified that police would otherwise have to come get them.<\/p>\n<p>\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 the unnamed Google official said.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters acknowledged that they understood but did not move. A couple of minutes later after the request, police were seen walking into the office and arresting the demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle execs basically chose to arrest workers for speaking out against the use of our technology to power the first AI-generated genocide,\u201d Mohammad Khatami, a Google software engineer, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Current and former Google employees held sit-ins this week at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hong-kong-legislature-outlaws-movies-that-threaten-national-security\/\" title=\"Hong Kong Legislature Outlaws Movies That Threaten \u2018National Security\u2019\">company offices<\/a> to protest the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critics-say-apple-keeps-its-app-store-closed-to-aid-chinese-censorship\/\" title=\"Critics Say Apple Keeps Its App Store Closed to Aid Chinese Censorship\">tech giant&#8217;<\/a>s work with the Israeli military, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoTechApartheid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NoTechApartheid<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>We speak with three workers speaking out against Big Tech&#8217;s &#8220;complicity with the Israeli occupation.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ObwCBrbgGM\">pic.twitter.com\/ObwCBrbgGM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Democracy Now! (@democracynow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/democracynow\/status\/1780582411912306740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The protest by the employees was organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid. Another protest was organized outside Google\u2019s Seattle office.<\/p>\n<p>The company accused the workers and demonstrators of trespassing and disrupting work. Google\u2019s spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/googlers-against-genocide-protest-in-sunnyvale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reportedly\">reportedly<\/a> said the protests were largely by people who \u201clargely don\u2019t work at Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Google employees, accompanied by numerous protesters, were arrested at Google&#8217;s California and New York offices for staging a protest against the company&#8217;s ties to Israel. 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