Stanford Graduates Walk Out on Google CEO’s Speech Over Company’s Ties to Israel
“The walkout was organized by a number of campus activist groups, including Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine, No Tech for Apartheid, and Tech for Liberation.”
Anti-Israel students at Stanford University carrying Palestinian flags walked out on commencement speaker Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, because the company has contracts with Israel.
Many of the students also chanted ‘Free Palestine!’ as they marched out of the venue.
The College Fix reports:
Pro-Palestinian Stanford grads storm out of stadium amid Google CEO commencement speech
More than 100 Stanford University graduates marched out of the stadium during the commencement ceremony Sunday as Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the podium and began his speech.
Videos posted online showed the students chanting “free, free Palestine” and waving Palestinian flags as they left the arena with Pichai’s voice echoing in the background.
Meanwhile, “smaller groups in the audience waved banners, blew whistles and waved Palestinian flags before also leaving mid-speech. Pro-Palestinian protesters condemned the company’s ties with the Israeli government, particularly its controversial $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal with the country in 2021, known as Project Nimbus,” SF Gate reported.
According to the New York Post, the protest was “organized by far left radical groups including Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid.”
The speech by Pichai, who graduated from Stanford in 1995, was billed as his first in-person commencement speech.
Watch below:
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly pic.twitter.com/qvS2rJ91Ip
— Matt Brown (@maattttbrown) June 14, 2026
More from Tech Crunch via Yahoo News:
The focus of the protest was Google’s defense ties — including Project Nimbus, the controversial $1.2 billion contract, shared with Amazon, to provide cloud and AI services to the Israeli military, as well as its relationship with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Student signs included phrases like “ICE SPIES WITH GOOGLE AI” and “GENOCIDE RUNS ON GOOGLE,” as well as “FREE FREE PALESTINE,” a press release associated with the protest notes. Students also waved Palestinian flags and shouted “free Palestine,” online video of the protest shows.
“We are walking out because we refuse to glorify the corporations that fuel this violence and exercise our power to choose differently,” a statement associated with the protest reads.
The walkout was organized by a number of campus activist groups, including Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine, No Tech for Apartheid, and Tech for Liberation. TechCrunch reached out to Google for comment.
A graduation celebration quickly turned into a protest.
Stanford graduates walked out during Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech. "Free Palestine" chants and boos were heard, and Palestinian flags were visible throughout the demonstration.
The protest was likely… pic.twitter.com/1Qhl8zmrVN
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 15, 2026
This crowd thinks everything is all about them, all the time.
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Keep walking till your completely off the cliff…
Your on your way
Good luck getting a job dumb asses. They should be drinking in everything he has to say and kissing his but considering all he’s accomplished. Let’s see what this generation of Stanford graduates contributes ? So far it looks like hatred and bigotry is their specialty. Pathetic.
I don’t know about all of that. He is pretty woke.
Far enough he is very woke. But no one likes being disrespected, even wokey wokesters. And his company isn’t so woke that they refuse to actually make money.
I hear you and I never meant to insinuate the “protest” should just shift topics. In fact, it’s fun when they eat their own and opt out of the workforce in one fell swoop.
Just wanted to carve out a slight exception to absorbing everything he says.
Pichai is leftist, but he’s a damn accomplished business executive, nonetheless. Respect is owed, by virtue of his accomplishments, his company track record and the context of the commencement.
In spite of being woke, did the protestors embarrass him enough to not hire the schools graduates
Stunning and brave.
I guess Stanford is graduating morons now because these kids would be cannon fodder for Hamas if they were in Gaza.
In Israel, a Muslim has human rights.
In Gaza, a Jew is not considered human.
Talk about being on the wrong side of history.
Disgusting performative and idiotic agitprop, from the allegedly pro-indigenous, “land acknowledgment” crowd.
Entitled, coddled, narcissistic and egotistical useful idiot dhimmis, spewing Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Jew-hate and Israel-hate, but, these pukes don’t have a scintilla of condemnation to offer regarding Submission’s 1,400-plus years of invasions, “conquest colonialism,” atrocities, misogyny, anti-homosexual persecution, barbarism and assorted crimes against non-Muslims.
Fifty-plus Islamic or Muslim-majority countries/enclaves have been established by Islamic conquest colonialism, globally, but, Jews can’t be allowed to live in their ancient homeland — pre-dating Submission’s founding by millennia — unmolested and free from vilification.
And, “Palestine” is an ancient Roman name, coined 600 years before Submission’s founding — it has nothing whatsoever to do with Submission, Muslims or Arabic.
The children who were never told “no”. The children whose parents handed them a tablet with bleep-bloop game on the screen rather than talking with them. The children who never read an actual book.
I’m not sure how much their parents know,
Maybe they should have their degrees rescinded and black listed from all industries?
You want to say Jews run the world? We will show you
There are times I wish we DID run everything.
Then, I remember my classmates at Fairfax High. My classmates at Temple Israel in Hollywood.
-shudder-
U2, eh?
I look back upon my bar mitzvah group at Temple Israel in White Plains
We do. What? You didn’t know!
In spite of being woke, did the protestors embarrass him enough to not hire the schools graduates.
Never expected another Fairfax graduate among this group.
This is a case that needs to be full FAFO situation. Stanford needs to cancel their diplomas for their protest. No diploma, no transcripts, and no degree.
Imagine spending so much on money and time on a degree that they walked out on. Or having to pay a student loan for education that did not result in a degree. That might teach some of the protestors there are consequences.
There is no way that Stanford would violate the Party Line by doing that. The more important response would be for any employers to refuse to hire anyone who went to Stanford.
Subotai Bahadur
Just another reason to support Israel. They are too ignorant to be ignorant but not to ignorant to be hateful. The commencement should have featured some October 7 footage
They are SOOOO smug and righteous.
Looks like a very small percentage of graduates. If I were hiring, I’d make a point of having larger face images of those walking out. 2026 numbers are not available.
Priceless – they walk out on Google CEO.
There may have been no reason to stay after they received “the $400,000 handshake“
There was a story making the rounds. I don’t think it is on here yet. It’s about a Cornell student who a NY startup wanted to interview for a internship. He declined because he said he didn’t want to work for a Jew. The startup founders are Jewish. The student is a run-of-mill American. Doesn’t appear to be Middle Eastern by name or looks. Pathetic
If it’s a recent/current Cornellian, the background is likely to be anything but white, Christian/Jewish.
My last trip to my alma mater, crossing the quad midday, I didn’t see one white, Christian/Jewish face.
My fraternity. I’m sorry to say, was ¾ other – but perhaps that’s the result of Cornell matriculation
Saw the story on Fox. The kids name is Auston Franco. Italian name I think. Looks like a simp too.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ivy-league-student-investigated-alleged-antisemitic-internship-rejection-working-jew-?msockid=31ea6142228d63401f8e759a23ad62f0
He has a gofundme. But of course….
Stanford fed them this poison.
It worked.
The only thing more tiresome than a, usually pompous and earnest, graduation speech is a student protest and walk out. Both are trying to convey “wisdom” to the on lookers. At least with the speech one can dose off and get some rest. The protest is intentionally loud and tries to attract attention interrupting those who would just as soon tune out.
So these losers showed up to a once in a lifetime event just to walk out. Go to trade school and try to make something of yourselves. Your GEDs will surely help with admittance.
Google prides itself on being more-Commie-than-thou (remember their infamous slogan of “Don’t be evil”?). Censorship of wrongthink is a top priority of Google (the other is collecting and selling your search history).
Yet even the Stalinists at Google can no longer pass the Communists’ purity test. What irony.
This is the final state of the Communist dictatorship Google wants to ram down our throats: ideological purges.
It took me 10 years to work my way through college. I have no clue who spoke at my commencement speech. I was hung over pretty bad and only went because my parents wanted to go. Spoiled brats . I guess that is what college is for these days. Education is not one of the goals.
Withhold their degrees’ until they give a written apology. If they refuse then expel them. “No degree for you Numb Skull”
These petulant, narcissistic twerps do know that the Federal Govt has ties to Israel right? The same Federal Govt and same Federal taxpayers who subsidized their Stanford degree. Gonna be tough to find a major company in the USA without some ties to Israel. Maybe a job washing dishes at a local Mom/Pop Mexican restaurant or a job doing yard work for the Aryan Brotherhood would meet their ‘no ties to Israel’ demand.
I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.
These are the young people who are considered “highly educated” in America? What a pathetic lot of sniveling crybabies.
All the world’s a stage for them in their little minds.
I was there for my son’s graduation. It was a pathetic display. Two years ago, they walked out as soon as the then university president spoke. This year they waited until Mr. Pichai began his speech. He indeed ignored them entirely— I would have mocked them myself. Some of the morons then tramped around the concourse under the stands, quite noisily, which may have been even more childish and annoying.
Anyway, they missed a decent speech by the man who led the team that gave us Chrome, the browser most of the morons use every day.
Huh. Guess you don’t get your diploma, then. Bye.
And the college should publish their names. For the sake of any employers out there.
Leftists protesting leftists.
Who cares?
Let them eat their own.
Feed their names to recruiting companies. They should become “Passover” grist by the financial and tech companies