Google workers revolt over $1.2 billion contract with Israel

from Press TV

A growing number of Google employees have joined protests calling on the company to drop the $1.2 billion contract that provides Israel with cloud and machine learning services, codenamed Project Nimbus.

Time magazine's recent coverage highlights the increasing influence of No Tech For Apartheid, a protest group that has taken a stand against Google's collaboration with Israel and now has around 40 Google staff among its members.

Last week, Eddie Hatfield, a 23-year-old Google Cloud software engineer, stood up at Mind the Tech, an annual conference promoting the Israeli tech industry, shouting, "I am a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance!” 

He was supported by the anti-Zionist Israeli groups Shoresh and Jewish Voices for Peace...

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