Reports indicate that Google has terminated more employees linked to anti-Israel activism, building on earlier dismissals of 28 workers who protested against Google’s contracts with the Israeli government on April 16.
The recent terminations coincide with Google’s deepened investigation into employees involved in the protest, some of whom attempted to conceal their identities by wearing masks and removing badges.
Colleagues of the protesters also assisted Google by providing details about those participating.
The organization “No Tech for Apartheid,” leading the protest to urge Google to cancel the Project Nimbus contract and halt business with Israel, disclosed that a total of 50 workers have been fired by Google.
In response, “No Tech for Apartheid” claimed, “This evening, in an aggressive and desperate act of retaliation, Google fired over 20 additional workers – including non-participating bystanders – during last week’s protests.”
The group argued, “Google is throwing a tantrum because the company’s executives are embarrassed about the strength workers showed at last Tuesday’s historic sit-ins, as well as their botched response to them.
Now, the corporation is lashing out at any worker that was physically in the vicinity of the protest, including those who were not at all involved in the campaign.”
The organization affirmed its commitment to continue protesting against the Nimbus contract, aimed at establishing cloud-based data centers for migrating the Israeli government’s IT infrastructure to cloud-based servers.
