Google fires 28 employees for protesting Israeli cloud contract

On April 18th (local time), Google fired 28 employees for participating in protests against the company's cloud service contract with the Israeli government .

Alphabet, the parent company, said that some protesting employees stormed and disrupted work at several unspecified offices.

"The actions of interfering with the work of other employees and preventing them from accessing our facilities are a clear violation of our policy and are completely unacceptable," Alphabet said in a statement.

The company added that it has concluded its individual investigations, which resulted in the termination of employment for 28 Google employees, and stated that it will continue to expand the investigation and take action if necessary.

28 Google employees were fired for protesting against an Israeli cloud service deal. (Photo: Reuters)

In a statement on Medium, Google employees associated with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign said that some employees not directly involved in the protests were also among those laid off by Google.

"Google employees have the right to peacefully object to our terms and conditions of employment ," the group of employees added.

The protesters argue that Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract awarded to Google and Amazon in 2021 to provide cloud services to the Israeli government, is supporting the development of Israeli government military tools.

For its part, Google asserts that the Nimbus contract " does not target top-secret, classified, or military workloads related to weapons or intelligence services."

This isn't the first time workers have protested against Google. In 2018, employees successfully pressured the company to abandon a contract with the U.S. military, Project Maven, to analyze drone imagery with potential applications in warfare.

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