{"id":533813,"date":"2021-05-21T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533813"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:51:08","slug":"apple-employees-condemn-israel-but-remain-silent-on-companys-use-of-chinese-slave-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-employees-condemn-israel-but-remain-silent-on-companys-use-of-chinese-slave-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Employees Condemn Israel but Remain Silent on Company\u2019s Use of Chinese Slave Labor"},"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%2Fapple-employees-condemn-israel-but-remain-silent-on-companys-use-of-chinese-slave-labor%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=533813&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\/GettyImages-478910802.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A group of Muslim employees at Apple is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/20\/22446059\/apple-employees-palestinians-support-internal-letter-tim-cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing<\/a> the tech giant to publicly condemn Israel&#8217;s &#8220;illegal occupation&#8221; of the Gaza Strip following a recent spate of violence caused by the terrorist group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to CEO Tim Cook, members of the Apple Muslim Association on Monday expressed their &#8220;sadness, anger, frustration, and disappointment&#8221; about &#8220;the struggle and pain of the Palestinian people, and their decades-long existence under military occupation.&#8221; The letter calls on Apple to support the Palestinian cause, noting that the company &#8220;has led the way not only on products, but on human rights issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The employees, however, have yet to speak out about the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China, where Apple\u2019s supply chain is largely located. Up to 1 million Uyghurs are imprisoned in &#8220;reeducation camps&#8221; in the western province of Xinjiang. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/seven-apple-suppliers-accused-of-using-forced-labor-from-xinjiang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> found photo and documentary evidence that seven Apple suppliers use Uyghur forced labor to make iPhone parts.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 Apple employees have signed the letter, which boasts that Apple employees &#8220;reached out to support and will continue to support our Asian communities in the face of anti-Asian hate and attacks.&#8221; The letter also notes that Apple employees &#8220;will continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Black and Brown communities in their fight for justice and equity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The signatories demand Apple not use the words &#8220;conflict&#8221; or &#8220;clash&#8221; to describe the fighting in Gaza, &#8220;as those words imply a power symmetry that simply does not exist.&#8221; The letter similarly demands Apple refrain from commenting on &#8220;both sides&#8221; of the conflict in Gaza, &#8220;as doing so would feel to us as the equivalent of \u2018all lives matter\u2019\u2014a minimization of the disproportionately larger pain and suffering of the Palestinian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Workers at other tech companies have also called on their employers to formally condemn Israel. On Wednesday, a group of &#8220;Jewish and allied&#8221; Google employees called on the company to formally <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/google-employees-demand-company-cut-ties-with-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terminate<\/a> its contracts with the Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire early Friday morning after 11 days of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Muslim employees at Apple is pushing the tech giant to publicly condemn Israel&#8217;s &#8220;illegal occupation&#8221; of the Gaza Strip following a recent spate of violence caused by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312606,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-478910802.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Apple Employees Condemn Israel but Remain Silent on Company\u2019s Use of Chinese Slave Labor","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-478910802.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Apple Employees Condemn Israel but Remain Silent on Company\u2019s Use of Chinese Slave Labor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}