Google fires 28 employees after protest against contract with Israeli government

Google has fired more than two dozen employees following protests against the company's cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government. 

The workers were terminated after a company investigation determined they were involved in protests on Tuesday inside the tech giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, Chris Rackow, Google's vice president for global security, stated in a companywide email. "Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened," he wrote.

"Physically impeding other employees' work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior. After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety," a Google spokesperson emailed CBS MoneyWatch.