Google reported this Thursday that it has fired 28 employees who entered the office of the firm’s president, Thomas Kurian, to demonstrate their rejection of the “genocide” in Gaza and a contract of the technology giant with the Government of Israel.
The events occurred last week and included protests at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale (California), organized by a group called ‘No Tech For Apartheid’.
A message from the organizers on the social network X indicated that the protesters “refuse to leave (the offices) until Google stops collaborating with the genocide in Gaza.”
A Google spokesperson, quoted but not identified by CNN, said that “a small number of employees entered a few offices, physically preventing other employees from working and accessing our offices.”
“We have so far concluded individual investigations that resulted in the dismissal of 28 employees, and we will continue to investigate and take action as necessary,” the spokesperson added.
According to protest organizers, Google and Amazon have a $1.2 billion contract, called ‘Project Nimbus’, to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli Government and Armed Forces.
