Google has acknowledged the firing of an employee who protested a project executed in collaboration with Israel during the Mind the Tech conference in New York City last week. According to a video circulated on social media, the fired employee interrupted a speech by Barak Regev, the managing director of Google Israel, by shouting objections to Project Nimbus, which involves Google providing cloud services to the Israeli government. The former Google employee stated, "I’m a software engineer at Google, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide."
The pro-Palestine Google Cloud engineer was booed by peers and removed from the conference by security for advocating for innocent civilians and opposing an apartheid state. A Google spokesperson commented that the employee's interruption of a colleague during a presentation, and their protest at a company-sponsored event, is considered "unacceptable behavior" and "violates company standards and policies."
It is noteworthy that Project Nimbus, valued at $1.2 billion, sparked significant protest among Google employees in 2022, as many rallied in response to concerns that the Israeli government would use Google’s cloud computing technologies in its violent practices against Palestinians.
