The war in Gaza has spurred conflict and defection at the web's largest search engine company.
The Israeli assault on Gaza has sparked conflict at companies throughout the world. At Google , a company that has often tried to foster a public reputation of openness, the war seems to have sparked a growing number of staff to protest or quit. Time magazine reports that the protest group No Tech For Apartheid, which lobbies against Google ’s involvement with the Israeli government, now includes at least 40 Google employees.
2 billion contract with Israel’s government & military” and asks visitors to “demand these companies immediately cancel Project Nimbus and end their complicity in Israel’s war crimes.” Google and Amazon workers have been protesting Project Nimbus for years—since long before the October 7th Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli assault on Gaza. That said, the recent explosion of violence seems to have propelled the contentious issue back to the forefront of the company’s culture wars.
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