Google Fires 28 Employees Involved in Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract

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Google Fires 28 Employees Over Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract

**Google** on Wednesday fired 28 workers after dozens of employees participated in sit-ins at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale, Calif., offices to protest the company’s cloud computing contract with the **Israeli** government. Read more

Quick Facts

  • Google fired 28 employees following sit-ins at its New York and Sunnyvale offices protesting the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.
  • Nine employees were arrested on charges of trespassing at the two offices a day earlier.
  • Employees expressed concern over Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Google and Amazon deal to supply the Israeli government with cloud services.

Years before the dismissals, tensions had been simmering between the company’s management and some activist employees over **Project Nimbus**, a $1.2 billion Google and Amazon deal to supply the **Israeli** government with cloud services, such as artificial intelligence.

That discord had deepened since the war in Gaza began in October. Google recently fired an employee who disrupted an Israeli technology conference in New York. And the company is even planning to make changes to a corporate forum because employees were bickering about the conflict.

Google said it would continue to investigate the Tuesday protests. In Sunnyvale, employees refused to leave the office of Thomas Kurian, the chief executive of Google Cloud.

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