Reports indicate that Google has terminated additional employees who participated in anti-Israel activism. This decision follows the earlier termination of 28 workers on April 16 for protesting Google’s contracts with the Israeli government.
The recent terminations occurred as the tech giant intensified its investigation into employees who participated in the protest, some of whom concealed their identities by wearing masks and removing their badges. Colleagues of the protesters also assisted the company by providing details about those involved.
The organisation “No Tech for Apartheid,” which led the protest to pressure Google into cancelling the Project Nimbus contract and ceasing business with Israel, has disclosed that a total of 50 workers have been fired by the tech giant.
“This evening, in an aggressive and desperate act of retaliation, Google fired over 20 additional workers – including non-participating bystanders – during last week’s protests,” claimed No Tech for Apartheid.
“Google is throwing a tantrum because the company’s executives are embarrassed about the strength workers showed at last Tuesday’s historic sit-ins, as well as their botched response to them. Now, the corporation is lashing out at any worker that was physically in the vicinity of the protest, including those who were not at all involved in the campaign,” it argued.
The group has declared its intent to continue protesting against the Nimbus contract, which aims to establish cloud-based data centres for migrating the Israeli government’s IT infrastructure to cloud-based servers.