Microsoft Fires Engineers After Protests Disrupt 50th Anniversary Over Israel AI Military Ties
#Microsoft #Gaza #Israel #AI #CloudComputing #Azure #BigTech #Protest #EmployeeActivism #TechEthics #NoAzureForApartheid #SatyaNadella #BillGates #ProjectNimbus #IDF #
Interview: Microsoft fired two workers who protested the company’s ties to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Leaked documents had revealed that Microsoft supplies the Israeli military with AI and cloud technology, as well as an Air Force unit known as the Ofek, to build “kill lists.”
Vaniya Agrawal, No Azure for Apartheid
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/11/no_azure_for_apartheid
#microsoft #noazureforapartheid #GazaGenocideNotWar #uspol .
Interview: Microsoft fired two workers who protested the company’s ties to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Leaked documents had revealed that Microsoft supplies the Israeli military with AI and cloud technology, as well as an Air Force unit known as the Ofek, to build “kill lists.”
Vaniya Agrawal, No Azure for Apartheid
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/11/no_azure_for_apartheid
#microsoft #noazureforapartheid #GazaGenocideNotWar #uspol .
Interview: Microsoft fired two workers who protested the company’s ties to Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Leaked documents had revealed that Microsoft supplies the Israeli military with AI and cloud technology, as well as an Air Force unit known as the Ofek, to build “kill lists.”
Vaniya Agrawal, No Azure for Apartheid
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/11/no_azure_for_apartheid
#microsoft #noazureforapartheid #GazaGenocideNotWar #uspol .
A Microsoft worker spoke up about the company's complicity in genocide, while leadership tried to ignore it and celebrate
https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai
Associated Press released a new deep dive into the complicity of US tech companies in Israeli genocide and apartheid. This includes, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, and more
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-technology-737bc17af7b03e98c29cec4e15d0f108
"According to the reports, the Israeli military’s use of Microsoft Azure’s cloud & AI services skyrocketed following the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, increasing 64 fold in some cases compared to usage data from September 2023; the Israeli military’s reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology and AI systems surged during the most intensive phases of genocide in Gaza."
https://medium.com/@noazureforapartheid/investigations-reveal-microsofts-active-role-in-israel-s-genocide-in-gaza-campaign-statement-0eb180eea6f4
Microsoft fired two employees for organizing a vigil, one of whom I know personally. Please take a moment to sign this petition calling out Microsoft for this unjust act of retaliation:
https://t.ly/NOAAPetition
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBtnYu9P8K_/
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#NoTechForApartheid
Microsoft sacks 2 #ArabAmerican employees who organised a vigil for #Gaza
#NoAzureForApartheid #NoTechforApartheid
#FreePalestineNow🇵🇸
#Microsoft fires employees who organized #vigil for #Palestinians killed in #Gaza
By MATT O’BRIEN
Updated 11:19 PM EDT, October 25, 2024
"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 '#NoAzureForApartheid' that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the #IsraeliGovernment. 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 #AbdoMohamed, 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.'"
#CeasefireNow #FreePalestine #Genocide #Gaza #BibiIsAWarCriminal #WorldWarBibi #BigTech
#US / Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
[…] 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.
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@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
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This is how racism against Palestinians is so normalized. Their family have their online and emails destroyed and it's just business as usual.
Imagine the uproar if families of Israelis in the US were banned for calling their relatives.
Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza
Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning.
Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - but will not say how - and the decision is final.
Good morning #NDCOslo, remember to tell Microsoft employees they should back #noazureforapartheid campaign -> https://www.notechforapartheid.com/
if you see AWS / Google reps tell them to drop Project Nimbus -> https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-lavender-ai-human-agency/
#notechforgenocide #FreeFreePalestine
Microsoft workers recently launched No Azure for Apartheid, a campaign demanding that Microsoft end complicity with the Israeli government/military. There is an excellent paper documenting Microsoft's connections.
A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide
by No Azure For Apartheid
friends working at Microsoft Oslo, ❤️you sat out the ICE involvement, are you going to sit this one out too? your employer is enabling genocide, parts of your paycheck comes for this. are you fine with this?
people building your careers on Microsoft tech, are you going to stay silent?
#microsoft #noazureforapartheid #notechforapartheid
