{"id":525734,"date":"2021-05-19T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525734"},"modified":"2021-05-19T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:06:16","slug":"google-employees-demand-company-cut-ties-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-demand-company-cut-ties-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Employees Demand Company Cut Ties With Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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-demand-company-cut-ties-with-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=525734&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Google.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A group of &#8220;Jewish and allied&#8221; Google employees on Wednesday called on the tech giant to terminate its contracts with the Israel Defense Forces and formally condemn Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 250 members of the Jewish Diaspora in Tech group called on the company to &#8220;heed the requests framed by Palestinian Googlers and center their voices going forward.&#8221; The letter also asks Google to fund Palestinian relief organizations, &#8220;recognize the pain&#8221; of Palestinians in a formal statement, and reject any definition of anti-Semitism that holds that criticism of Israel or Zionism is anti-Semitic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1QjM_xfhcMxLxPcB-NxYYQcum2laNyyKM3LMK_Rssb9g\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> comes as Israel weathers ongoing attacks from Hamas, which has bombarded Israel with thousands of rockets. Google came under fire earlier this week after its subsidiary YouTube twice banned a video defending Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. The <em>Washington Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/youtube-blames-covid-for-censorship-of-pro-israeli-legal-scholars-video\/\">reported<\/a> that YouTube blamed the censorship on the shoddy technology the company has adopted during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories allege that other groups of Google employees have demanded Google take a &#8220;one-sided pro-Israel perspective&#8221; and &#8220;support the sovereign state.&#8221; Other media <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/google-employee-letter-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlets<\/a> have repeated the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Diaspora in Tech formed as a breakaway from &#8220;Jewglers,&#8221; an affinity group at Google for Jewish employees. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/18\/22441236\/jewish-google-employees-support-palestine-letter-anti-zionism-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <em>Verge<\/em><\/a>, the Diaspora group consists of members upset at the generally pro-Israel beliefs of Jewglers.<\/p>\n<p>Google has caved to employee pressure before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-44341490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declining<\/a> to renew an AI contract with the Department of Defense, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4125382\/google-pentagon-ai-project-maven\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Maven<\/a>, in 2018 after internal pushback.<\/p>\n<p>Google did not reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of &#8220;Jewish and allied&#8221; Google employees on Wednesday called on the tech giant to terminate its contracts with the Israel Defense Forces and formally condemn Israel. 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