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Google has fired dozens of labor progressive successful anti-Israel protests that took complete nan firm offices successful New York and Sunnyvale, California.
In a memo to employees, Google Vice President of Global Security Chris Rackow announced that 28 staffers who participated successful a 10 hr sit-in astatine nan company's offices, including nan individual agency of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, were terminated Wednesday aft an soul investigation.
"They took complete agency spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded nan activity of different Googlers," Rackow wrote successful nan memo, which Google confirmed was accurate. "Their behaviour was unacceptable, highly disruptive, and made co-workers consciousness threatened."
The memo was first reported by the New York Post.
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Google workers astatine a sit-in Google office successful Sunnyvale, California. (No Tech for Apartheid / Fox News)
Jane Chung, a spokesperson for nan protestation group No Tech For Apartheid, said successful a property merchandise that 9 labor astatine offices successful New York City and Sunnyvale, California, were arrested during Tuesday's sit-in. Several Google labor were besides arrested wrong nan tech company's Sunnyvale offices aft a sit-in.
Demonstrators were arrested aft they occupied Kurian's agency to publication their database of demands, including that Google trim disconnected each ties to Israel and cancel a $1.2 cardinal statement to supply cloud-computing and artificial intelligence services to nan Israeli government.
The labor besides demanded that nan institution extremity "the harassment, intimidation, bullying, silencing, and censorship of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Googlers."
Google has denied that its Nimbus task is assisting Israel pinch weapons aliases intelligence services.
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Google workers protested nan tech giant's statement pinch nan Israeli subject and nan company's alleged complicity successful nan Israel-Hamas war. (No Tech for Apartheid / Fox News)
"Google Cloud supports galore governments astir nan world successful countries wherever we operate, including nan Israeli government, pinch our mostly disposable unreality computing services," nan institution told FOX Business successful a statement.
"We person been very clear that nan Nimbus statement is for workloads moving connected our commercialized unreality by Israeli authorities ministries, who work together to comply pinch our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. This activity is not directed astatine highly sensitive, classified, aliases subject workloads applicable to weapons aliases intelligence services," a Google spokesperson said.
The company-wide memo said labor progressive successful nan protests were placed nether investigation and had their entree to Google's systems trim off.
"Behavior for illustration this has nary spot successful our workplace and we will not tolerate it," Rackow wrote. Those demonstrators who refused to time off Google's premises were arrested by rule enforcement and forcibly removed, he said.
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Rackow added that nan protestation violated Google's worker codification of behaviour and workplace harassment and standards of behaviour policies.
"We are a spot of business and each Googler is expected to publication our policies and use them to really they behaviour themselves and pass successful our workplace. The overwhelming mostly of our labor do nan correct thing. If you’re 1 of nan fewer who are tempted to deliberation we’re going to place behaviour that violates our policies, deliberation again," nan memo reads.
"The institution takes this highly seriously, and we will proceed to use our longstanding policies to return action against disruptive behaviour — up to and including termination."
In a connection to FOX Business, a Google spokesperson said nan protests were portion of a "longstanding run by a group of organizations and group who mostly don't activity astatine Google."
No Tech for Apartheid protesters hung a ample motion wrong nan Google office successful California connected Tuesday, April 16. (No Tech for Apartheid / Fox News)
"A mini number of worker protesters entered and disrupted a fewer of our locations," nan spokesperson said. "Physically impeding different employees' activity and preventing them from accessing our accommodation is simply a clear usurpation of our policies, and wholly unacceptable behavior. After refusing aggregate requests to time off nan premises, rule enforcement was engaged to region them to guarantee agency safety."
Google confirmed that 28 labor were fired aft an soul review.
"We will proceed to return action arsenic needed," nan spokesperson said.
No Tech For Apartheid did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
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In Sunnyvale, California, astir 3 twelve labor gathered to protest. (No Tech for Apartheid / Fox News)
Jane Chung, a spokeswoman for nan protesters, blasted nan firings successful a statement.
"This evening, Google indiscriminately fired 28 workers, including those among america who did not straight participate successful yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests," Google workers said successful nan statement.
"This flagrant enactment of retaliation is simply a clear denotation that Google values its $1.2 cardinal statement pinch nan genocidal Israeli authorities and subject much than its ain workers — nan ones who create existent worth for executives and shareholders."
"Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian are genocide profiteers," nan connection asserted, referring to Google’s CEO and nan Google Cloud CEO, respectively.
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"We cannot comprehend really these men are capable to slumber astatine nighttime while their tech has enabled 100,000 Palestinians killed, reported missing, aliases wounded successful nan past six months of Israel’s genocide — and counting."
An NYPD spokesperson said astir 50 group were progressive successful nan Tuesday protest, and 4 were arrested for trespassing wrong nan Google building, according to nan Post.
The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said nan California protestation "consisted of astir 80 participants." Five protesters were arrested for refusing to time off Google's office, nan New York Post reported.
FOX Business' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
