{"id":547952,"date":"2021-06-01T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547952"},"modified":"2021-06-01T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:36:03","slug":"activists-in-tech-push-anti-semitic-bds-campaign-inside-workplace-after-israel-defended-self-from-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-in-tech-push-anti-semitic-bds-campaign-inside-workplace-after-israel-defended-self-from-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists In Tech Push Anti-Semitic BDS Campaign Inside Workplace After Israel Defended Self From Terror"},"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%2Factivists-in-tech-push-anti-semitic-bds-campaign-inside-workplace-after-israel-defended-self-from-terror%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=547952&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\/06\/Israel-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Far-left activists working inside major U.S. tech companies are waging an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/news\/bds-is-antisemitic\">anti-Semitic<\/a> Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in response to Israel defending itself from Palestinian terrorist attacks last month.<\/p>\n<p>The push for the anti-Semitic BDS campaign comes after Palestinian terrorist organizations \u2014 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad \u2014 launched more than 4,300 rockets at Israel last month with approximately 680 falling inside of Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/1396170789305659402\">responded<\/a> by launching targeted strikes against the terror groups, resulting in the deaths of more than 200 terrorists, as well as the destruction of more than 60 miles of underground tunnels they were using.<\/p>\n<p>The activist tech workers \u201care strategizing with outside activists over the best way to agitate against cloud contracts with the Israeli government,\u201d Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/31\/tech-giants-israel-ceasefire-491435\">reported<\/a>. \u201cA May 21 webinar for activists interested in demilitarization in the Palestinian territories, which BDS organized, included a breakout room devoted entirely to tech worker activism on the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An employee at Google who was part of organizing the activist\u2019s efforts said that what is happening is \u201ca broader reckoning within the technology industry about its involvement in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that Microsoft \u201cdivested\u201d from an Israeli firm after activists within the company pressured them to do so last year. The report said that activists inside Google and Amazon were trying to pressure their companies into canceling major contracts with Israel\u2019s government. Amazon is currently in talks to set up three data centers in Israel while Google is setting up a new Google Cloud region in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA major target of pro-Palestinian activists\u2019 ire is a $1.2 billion cloud contract called Project Nimbus, which the Israeli government awarded to Amazon and Google last month,\u201d the report added. \u201cThough public information about the contract is scarce, Israel has said the companies will help provide cloud services to government agencies and the Israeli Defense Force. Shahar Bracha, the acting CEO of a technology-focused unit within the Israeli prime minister\u2019s office, lauded Amazon\u2019s cloud-computing unit and Google as \u2018the Rolls-Royce and the Maserati of the cloud world.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maria Jeffrey Reynolds, a spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), said in a statement that the activists inside the tech companies were \u201ca bunch of privileged people in Silicon Valley\u201d who were pushing their companies \u201cto participate in the anti-Israel BDS movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government late last year recognized \u201cthe global anti-Israel BDS campaign as anti-Semitic,\u201d then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. \u201cWe want to stand with all other nations that recognize that the BDS movement for the cancer that it is and we\u2019re committed to combatting it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NGO Monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pompeo-in-israel-u-s-to-defund-organizations-involved-in-anti-semitic-cancer-bds-campaigns\">responded<\/a> to the announcement by saying in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>The equating of BDS with antisemitism echoes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u2019s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which defines attempts to deny \u201cthe Jewish people their right to self-determination\u201d and apply \u201cdouble standards\u201d as antisemitic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Combating antisemitism and ending the exploitation of universal human rights are both issues of great importance, and the need to address these objectives should transcend political divisions. In this context, NGO Monitor has called for governments, as well as NGOs, to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-left activists working inside major U.S. tech companies are waging an anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in response to Israel defending itself from Palestinian terrorist attacks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278754,"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\/06\/Israel-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Activists In Tech Push Anti-Semitic BDS Campaign Inside Workplace After Israel Defended Self From Terror","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Israel-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Activists In Tech Push Anti-Semitic BDS Campaign Inside Workplace After Israel Defended Self From Terror","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547952","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=547952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}