Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Amazon fires employee for exposing company’s support for 'Israel'

from al Mayadeen English

Ahmed Shahrour, a 29-year-old Palestinian software engineer, was terminated by Amazon on Monday after publicly protesting the company’s role in supporting Israeli government and military operations through Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud-computing and AI contract. 

Project Nimbus involves Amazon and Google providing cloud-computing services to Israeli government and military entities. The project enables military operations that violate human rights in Palestine, particularly during the recent genocidal war on Gaza that killed thousands before a ceasefire took effect this past week.

Shahrour’s activism has drawn attention to the role of US tech companies in sustaining occupation policies and military attacks against Palestinian civilians...

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