Google fires 28 staff after protests against Israeli government contract [Video]
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Google has fired 28 employees after protests on Tuesday in the company’s offices against their cloud contract with the Israeli government.

The employees were terminated on Wednesday following a sit-in protest inside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California.

Dozens of Google workers made their way inside Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office at the Sunnyvale office, as well as on the 10th-floor commons in New York City, according to No Tech for Apartheid, the organisation that led the protests.

“They refuse to leave until @google stops powering the genocide in Gaza,” the group added, showing pictures of protestors holding banners inside the offices, some of which said “no more genocide for profit” and “Googlers against genocide”.

The protests are directed at a $1.2bn contract entered into by Google and Amazon to …

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