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Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas.

The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late Thursday, several hours after a lunchtime event they organized at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington.

Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid” that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. But they contended that Thursday’s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need.

“We have so many community members within Microsoft who have lost family, lost friends or loved ones,” said Abdo Mohamed, a researcher and data scientist. “But Microsoft really failed to have the space for us where we can come together and share our grief and honor the memories of people who can no longer speak for themselves.”

Microsoft said Friday it has “ended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy” but declined to provide details.

Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war. The firings stemmed from internal turmoil and sit-in protests at Google offices centered on “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 for Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.

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[–] B312@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Israel can’t afford to save women and children, who will likely become other terrorists

What kind of fucked up facist propaganda is this?

[–] s604567@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The kind you literally see on Israeli TV talk shows.

[–] rukaslan@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it is the reality. Many children in Palestine, get trained and used by terrorists, which is documented. Or do you think that's propaganda too?

[–] B312@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That doesn’t justify killing them asshole. Just because a child might become a terrorist doesn’t mean that you should kill them. You should destroy the source which Israel could if it wanted to seeing how effective Mossad is, but they don’t care. They care about erasing the Palestinian population and setting up settlements on their graves.