Google Workers Protest Israeli Military Contract As Ex-Intern Killed In Airstrike

 

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On Tuesday night, a large number of employees congregated at Google’s headquarters in New York City to protest Project Nimbus, which supplies Israel’s armed forces, and to honor Mai Ubeid, a young woman and intern software engineer who, along with her entire family, perished in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

To express their outrage about the passing of an ex-intern, hundreds of present and past employees of Google and Amazon gathered at Google’s New York City headquarters. Their employers’ contracts with the Israeli military were also criticized by them.

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Project Nimbus is an Israeli government and military cloud computing initiative. The Israeli government and military use cloud and machine learning services from Google and Amazon.

Numerous Google workers have claimed that their firm aids Israeli authorities in what human rights organizations refer to as apartheid that Israel imposes on Palestinians.

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Employees at Google staged protests to raise awareness of Ubeid’s death. Google, however, has opted not to acknowledge Ubeid’s death either internally or in public.

The Guardian reported that numerous employees criticized Google. Google software developer Mohammed Khatami told The Guardian that Sundar Pichai, the company’s CEO, and the company’s silence over Ubeid’s passing constituted a “betrayal in the purest sense of the word.”

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Workers from Google and Amazon, including those spearheading the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, demonstrated on Tuesday as well. One worker yelled, “Shame on Pichai and shame on Google.”