Google Employees Arrested and Fired After ‘Sit-In’ Demanding Company Drop Contract With Israel
“Last night, Google made the decision to arrest us, the company’s own workers – instead of engaging with our concerns about Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with Israel”
Google employees in New York City and California have been arrested and fired after staging sit-ins to protest the company’s business with the nation of Israel. Although it’s not mentioned specifically in reports, these are classic tactics of the boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) movement.
Like other protests of this kind, these employees accused the company of supporting genocide.
The FOX Business Network reports:
‘Googlers against Genocide’ arrested after 10 hour sit-in at corporate headquarters: WATCH
“Googlers against genocide” protesters were arrested on Tuesday after holding a 10-hour sit-in against the tech giant’s contract with the Israeli government.
Jane Chung, a spokesperson for the protesters, said in a press release that nine employees at offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, were arrested during Tuesday’s sit-in.
“Last night, Google made the decision to arrest us, the company’s own workers – instead of engaging with our concerns about Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with Israel,” a statement from the arrested employees said.
“Those of us sitting in Thomas Kurian’s office repeatedly requested to speak with the Google Cloud CEO, but our requests were denied,” they said.
The protesters said that the company was telling “bare-faced lies” after Google released a statement saying that Project Nimbus was “not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”
“We will not stay silent in light of Google’s bare-faced lies. Hundreds and thousands of Google workers have joined No Tech for Apartheid’s call for the company to Drop Project Nimbus,” they said.
CNBC has more:
Nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office.
The arrests, which were livestreamed on Twitch by participants, follow rallies outside Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale and Seattle, which attracted hundreds of attendees, according to workers involved. The protests, led by the “No Tech for Apartheid” organization, focused on Project Nimbus — Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services, including artificial intelligence tools, data centers and other cloud infrastructure.
Protesters in Sunnyvale sat in Kurian’s office for more than nine hours until their arrests, writing demands on Kurian’s whiteboard and wearing shirts that read “Googler against genocide.” In New York, protesters sat in a three-floor common space. Five workers from Sunnyvale and four from New York were arrested.
This video includes the idiotic chant you hear at many of these protests, which sounds like it was written by fourth graders.
Instant karma: @Google employees held a sit-in protest of the Big Tech company's business with Israel.
They were arrested and fired.
Life comes at you fast!pic.twitter.com/rJiysqtPsk
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 18, 2024
JUST IN: Google has fired 28 staffers after they protested a contract that google holds with Israel. The protesters were all employees in NY and California who stormed the office of executives for a sit in protest.
“They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and… pic.twitter.com/2TGzUZSXWs
— 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 (@Travis_in_Flint) April 18, 2024
This video includes a moment when police arrive on the scene.
Pro-Palestinian Google employees were arrested after occupying a senior level office for hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel. pic.twitter.com/QoR4EvcbSJ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 17, 2024
The company will be better off without these people.
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I guess even a kapo like Sergey Brin has his limits.
Extremely pissed that uber-liberal Google is the first company to actually do the right thing with these parasites.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say those fired workers won’t be listing Google for a reference.
Bright spot? They’ll have more time to play with traffic on highways.
It would not have taken my boss ten hours to fire protesting employees.
I think 10 hours was quick.
Last guy at my company that decided to go into the office and “protest” something met the Director of Operations up close and personal. He was immediately fired, told to get his stuff and get the hell off the property.
It’s Google. I’m amazed they weren’t all given promotions.
Maybe the tide is turning.
Narcissistic ignoramuses
Only ignoramuses and ideological lemmings still wear face diapers!
Yet more restrictions on free speech and expression we can all agree with.
They are free to speak and express themselves all they like, on public property or on their own property, in a manner that doesn’t harm anyone else. There is no right to trespass, disrupt a workplace, block traffic, or commit any other crime, just because you happen to be exercising your first-amendment rights at the same time. Otherwise every murderer could claim that he should be exempt from the law because he was exercising his second-amendment rights at the time of the murder!
There is a class of thug who commits crimes, videos themselves doing it and posts the video to YouTube. They justify trespassing, harassment, and stalking by claiming they’re “exercising their 1st Amendment rights”.
One of them recently got six months in jail for interfering with a traffic stop, and thinks he’ll have his conviction overturned because he had a cellphone in each hand recording.
One of those weirdo’s who call themselves “auditors”?
True “auditors” go out of their way to make sure they aren’t breaking any laws in the process.
More than one police officer has been fired or disciplined, more than one police chief has resigned, and more than one department has lost in court because of the incidents created by police/government response to people lawfully recording in public areas. Many police departments are woefully undertrained and in some cases, incorrectly trained, as the NJ (of all places) Office of the State Comptroller recently announced.
Paid for by your tax dollars:
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2023/12/06/nj-comptroller-training-for-hundreds-of-cops-undermined-key-reforms/71825594007/
Are you really that stupid?
it appears that
“yes he can”
smh
*SHAKES MAGIC 8-BALL*
“Signs point to ‘Yes'”
Its one thing to post on your personal FB page that you stand with palestine or whatever, Or bumper sticker on your personal car in company parking lot. But beyond that your employer has no obligation to allow employees to use the workplace for their personal free speech platform. If you can’t handle that, you might not be employable anywhere.
Good luck as independent contractor.
Meant to downvote this instead of upvote. More idiots advocating for restrictions on property rights. You have no right to trespass on my private property & disrupt my business in the supposed exercise of free speech & free expression.
Google figures it does better contracting infrastructure with an IQ 115 country instead of an IQ 83 country.
Since when do the monkeys get to run the zoo?
You don’t like what your company does to make a profit, there is always Starbucks. But even Starbucks abuse Central and South American bean growers. They don’t get to make a “living wage.”
Speaking of Google protests. I don’t see protests against India and their caste system.
Wherever did they get the stupid idea that people will bend over backwards and immediately capitulate to their entitled whiny narcissism?
What… is that taught in school or something?
Yes, by old boomer professors who regal their students with tales about how protests stopped the Vietnam war, and how much fun it was.
“ There I was, at Kent State, putting a daisy in the barrel of a National Guardsman’s rifle, when suddenly….”
It never occurs to these kids that the corporate world might be different than the college world
(Raises hand) I know wherever!
Good business decision, unfortunately I don’t think Google is less evil for doing this. Now these young jackasses should be blackballed.
They may very well have been blackballed. Just because the article doesn’t say it, doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done.
What these young people don’t realize is word gets around, and even in the leftist silicon valley, at bottom, these companies are there to make a profit, and not to make a statement. The ones that make statements above profits are the ones that we don’t hear about anymore. They are long gone.
“these companies are there to make a profit, and not to make a statement.”
They’re also there to make a statement. Just not that transparently.
Buh-bye.
there are people who will block
entrances to certain places of business knowing they will be arrested. to them it is worth it .
they dont complain they just go quietly with the police and another protester takes their place,
usually at abortion clinics …
Nice try. But you know this is overwhelmingly a problem,of the left, no matter how you try to spin it.
yes it is a left problem
pointing out that there are people
on both sides that are passionate about issues … the people at the abortion clinic are not employees there… however they feel strongly enough to go to jail.
Looks like these pampered entitled snowflakes fucked around found out. Zero sympathy for these Anti Semites and others like them. Bravo Google!
Among other things, it looks like these employees overestimated their value to the company. It’s a common problem nowadays; it’s like washed-up actors and singers thinking I’ll change my vote just because they call me names.
“Google made the decision to arrest us, the company’s own workers”
If you had been working, they wouldn’t have.
Spoiled brat syndrome. What is the flag? Is it missing a few colors for lbgqt?
Google deserves credit for this. A stopped digital clock can be right once a decade.
Why do they always wear masks?
A. They are asshole morons.
B. They are showing how much they care about people and do not want to spread their germs/s.
C. Reduced oxygen and increased co2 makes for a more compliant jackass.
D. They are addicted to the masks.
To hide their identity.
(Waves hand frantically) Ooh! I know that one, too!
They aren’t in college anymore.
College Presidents should be so bold.
Those crazed extremists were fired with EXTREME PREJUDICE?
lol
Google Chrome’s logo has a 666 built into it btw.
That’s nice…
Do you also see the hammer and sickle on the Kennedy half dollar?
No, but I can show you the spider on the dollar bill.
(It’s really there!)
Likely these are the Gemini AI engineers? They seem like the type to think that the Pope was an elderly Indian woman and George Washington was a young healthy African American.
That was a relatively quick and painless way for Google to downsize a bit…
Always maskholes. Always maskholes
google saw that once people like Bill Ackman got involved ( with that racist haaa vard pos) that they too could receive some serious blacklash
google is as corrupt as most on the left
You can tell who has power in a society and who has not based on how quickly they can remove those who micturate in their Wheaties.
Subotai Bahadur
I’m guessing it will be a “no” to being eligible for unemployment benefits.