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Google fires 28 employees who protested Israel cloud contract

Google has terminated 28 employees after dozens of workers participated in sit-ins inside company offices earlier this week to protest the tech giant's work in Israel amid the war against Hamas in Gaza. The protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, raised concerns about Google and Amazon's $1.2-billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military. The ...
A banner hangs during the sit-in at Google’s New York office.

Google has terminated 28 employees after dozens of workers participated in sit-ins inside company offices earlier this week to protest the tech giant's work in Israel amid the war against Hamas in Gaza.

The protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid that Google and Amazon drop the effort, known as Project Nimbus.

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