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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Google terminated 28 employees for their involvement in a 10-hour sit-in at two of the tech giant’s offices in California and New York City, protesting the company’s ties with Israel.<\/p>\n

In response to the Tuesday protests led by a group called No Tech For Apartheid against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel, Google on Wednesday fired 28 employees accused of taking part in the protests.<\/p>\n

“This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday\u2019s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests,” said a post on X by No Tech For Apartheid.<\/p>\n

Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, emphasized the company’s zero-tolerance policy towards the behavior of the protesters in a memo sent to all employees that also circulated on social media.<\/p>\n

“Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it,” it said.<\/p>\n

“Following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed,” it added.<\/p>\n

In a response, No Tech For Apartheid condemned the move, calling it a “flagrant act of retaliation.”<\/p>\n

“This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers,” the group said.<\/p>\n

About 10 hours into the protests, police arrested groups of employees in both New York and California, the group reported on X.<\/p>\n

The protests also coincide with Israel\u2019s continuing offensive on the Gaza Strip, which since last Oct. 7 has taken over 33,800 lives.<\/p>\n

The firings, which occurred just hours after nine employees were detained by police during sit-in protests in Sunnyvale, California, and a New York office, have stirred a wave of controversy within the company and beyond.<\/p>\n

Nimbus project<\/b><\/p>\n

The Nimbus project includes a cloud and machine learning system that enables data storage, collection, analysis, motif and feature identification from data, and prediction of potential data and motifs.<\/p>\n

A $1.2 billion contract for the project was signed in April 2021 between Israel and Google and Amazon.<\/p>\n

Israel announced in April 2021 that Google and Amazon won the massive state tender, allowing Israel to establish its local cloud storage server centers.<\/p>\n

The system can collect all data sources provided by Israel and its military, including databases, resources, and even live observation sources such as street and drone cameras.<\/p>\n

Critics argue that the project could help Israel continue its apartheid-like system of oppression, domination, and segregation of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

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