Google Wednesday took action by terminating 28 employees who were involved in a 10-hour sit-in protest at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California.
The employees were protesting Google’s business ties with the Israeli government, specifically its participation in a $1.2 billion contract called “Project Nimbus”. The contract involves providing cloud-computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government and military.
The pro-Palestinian staffers, who wore traditional Arab headscarves during the protest, were arrested during the sit-in.
Google’s Vice President of Global Security, Chris Rackow, stated that their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.
The company emphasized that such behavior violates multiple policies, including the code of conduct, anti-harassment policies, and workplace standards. As a result, the terminated employees were affiliated with a group called “No Tech For Apartheid”, which has been critical of Google’s response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said in a companywide memo. “They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers,” Rackow wrote in the memo obtained by The Post. “Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.” In New York, protesters had occupied the 10th floor of Google’s 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.”
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