{"id":2224189,"date":"2024-04-18T13:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-announces-firing-of-28-anti-israel-employees-for-protesting-in-scathing-memo\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:24:29","slug":"google-announces-firing-of-28-anti-israel-employees-for-protesting-in-scathing-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-announces-firing-of-28-anti-israel-employees-for-protesting-in-scathing-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google terminates 28 employees for protesting in support of 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%2Fgoogle-announces-firing-of-28-anti-israel-employees-for-protesting-in-scathing-memo%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=2224189&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 recently \u200cfired \u206328 employees\u2064 for staging\u200b protests demanding the company to \u2063end its business with \u2063Israel. The \u200cemployees occupied offices, defaced property, and \u2063obstructed \u2064work.\u200b Google&#8217;s VP \u2063of Global Security labeled their behavior unacceptable and disruptive. Some protesting employees were arrested.\u2064 This action comes in \u200dresponse\u2062 to \u2064protests demanding the termination of a contract with\u200c Israel.  <\/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 fired 28 employees on Wednesday after they occupied an executive\u2019s office in California and protested in the company\u2019s New York building to demand<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the company stop doing business with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers,\u201d Google vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-call-border-crisis-a-crisis-politico-orders-staff\/\" title=\"Don\u2019t Call Border Crisis A \u2018Crisis,\u2019 Politico Orders Staff\">company-wide memo<\/a>. \u201cTheir behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made coworkers feel threatened.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protesting employees were initially placed on administrative leave while an investigation took place, and others <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/google-employees-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were arrested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  after refusing to leave for more than eight hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Google fired 28 of the protesting employees, according to a company wide memo by Google VP of global security Chris Rackow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re one of the few who are tempted to think we\u2019re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FhPmK214J\">https:\/\/t.co\/6FhPmK214J<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zjP25LzWnn\">pic.twitter.com\/zjP25LzWnn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassyDillon\/status\/1780786943866900818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protests <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  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\">\u201cBehavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it,\u201d Rackow continued. \u201cIt clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to \u2026 we are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_725397\" style=\"width: 862px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-725397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google employees getting arrested in the company\u2019s Sunnyvale, CA office for occupying the office of an executive to call for the company to terminate a contract with Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rackow stated that most of Google\u2019s roughly 180,000 employees \u201cdo the right thing,\u201d adding a warning: \u201cIf you\u2019re one of the few who are tempted to think we\u2019re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protesting employees who occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian livestreamed their protest on Twitch which showed them getting arrested by police after refusing to leave.<\/span><\/p>\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<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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he threatens to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-encourages-people-to-call-police-on-neighbors-violating-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon Governor Encourages People To Call Police On Neighbors Violating COVID Orders\">call law enforcement<\/a>, employees state that they understand. Seconds later, police walk into the office and detain them all before the livestream cuts off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demands made by protesters included <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\">The terminations appear to be Google\u2019s first hard steps to clamp down on the apparent rampant anti-Semitism 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<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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now-former Google employee Kate Sim who sent an email to thousands of employees announcing her participation in the protest was also fired, according to her Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terminated worker here,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cListen when employers tell you exactly who they are. McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power Solidarity always we\u2019ll keep us safe when we fight together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her email, Sim accused Google leadership of lying about the purpose of Project Nimbus and profiting off of genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\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 Sim wrote, adding that in the last six months, she \u201csaw how AI-powered military technology are killing children at an unprecedented scale.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zelda Montes, who also sent an email announcing protest participation was also fired, according to sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_725391\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-725391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Google employee Zelda Montes announced plans to participate in an anti-Israel protest in an email sent to thousands of coworkers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No Tech for Apartheid, the organization that helped organize the protests, called the terminations \u201cillegal\u201d and said workers who did not participate in the protest were also fired. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Google\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  just fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday\u2019s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests,\u201d the group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C54qFvUtuzY\/?img_index=3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote on Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cThis flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The group denied accusations of harassment and called Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Kurian \u201cgenocide profiteers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe truth is clear: Google is terrified of workers coming together and calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses,\u201d the group continued. \u201cThey are choosing to reveal the falsity of Google\u2019s \u2018open culture\u2019 in order to get rid of a threat. The corporation is trying to downplay and discredit our power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The group added that the firings will not stop them, and \u201conly serve as further fuel for the growth of this movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMake no mistake, we will continue organizing until the company drops Project Nimbus and stops powering this genocide,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/span><\/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 dismissed 28 employees for occupying an executive\u2019s office in California and staging a protest at the company&#8217;s New York building. The employees demanded Google cease business with Israel. 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