Google staffers storm NYC, California, Seattle offices to protest $1.2B Israel contract
NY Post
Google staffers wearing traditional Arab headscarves barged into the California office of the company’s top cloud executive, while other workers staged a sit-in at the company’s headquarters in New York City to protest the tech giant’s ties to the Israeli government on Tuesday.
The pro-Palestinian employees, part of a group called “No Tech for Apartheid,” used social media accounts on X and Twitch to post images and live video of their takeover of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud.
The activist workers read statements denouncing the company over its contract with the Israel government, which the group accuses of carrying out a “genocide” in its bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip — following the Hamas massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7.
They demanded that Google cancel its participation in “Project Nimbus” — a $1.2 billion contract with Israel that involves Google Cloud as well as Amazon Web Services.
Another group of protesters were seen occupying the 10th floor of Google offices in the Chelsea section of Manhattan as part of a protest that also extended to the company’s offices in Seattle for what it called “No Tech for Genocide Day of Action.”
The Post has sought comment from Google.
