Google has fired 28 employees for occupying an office space for hours in protest of the company’s contract with the Israeli government. This was decided after an internal investigation, further investigation is being conducted and could lead to further measures, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
A group called “No Tech for Apartheid” occupied the office of Google Cloud storage services manager Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday. The activists said they stayed there for ten hours. Video recordings published by the activists on the online service X showed police officers arresting several Google employees. Protests also took place in New York and Seattle.
Google spoke of a “small number” of employees who disrupted business operations at some Google locations. The protests are part of a “long-term campaign by a group of organizations and people, most of whom do not work at Google.”
Google: “No military tasks”
The activist group protested a $1.2 billion partnership between tech giants Google and Amazon with the Israeli government. The protesters pointed to an April Time magazine report that Google had billed Israel’s Defense Ministry more than $1 million for consulting services in a draft contract.
A Google spokesperson pointed out that Israel is one of “numerous” countries the company works with. The services are not connected to military or secret service tasks.
Source: Krone
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