Google Employees Arrested While Occupying CEO's Office With Anti-Israel Demands

Google employees who occupied the California office of Google Cloud CEO 
Thomas Kurian for more than eight hours to demand the company stop doing 
business with Israel were arrested late Tuesday.

The employees broadcast their protest on a “notech4apartheid’ Twitch 
livestream. The video showed they given the opportunity to leave 
voluntarily, and then arrested by police after refusing to do so.

In the stream, a man is seen approaching the protesters to notify them 
that they were put on administrative leave and asking them to leave. 

“It’s getting kinda late,” the man says. “I wanted to ask you, you know, 
to cooperate, you’ve been placed on admin leave and we’d like to see if 
you’d just voluntarily [leave] it’s been a while. Can you do that for us?”

When he threatens to call law enforcement, employees state that they 
understand. Seconds later, police walk in the office and detain them all 
before the livestream cuts off.

The protests were announced in internal emails to employees that shared a 
list of demands, including that Google drop its $1.2 billion contract with 
Israel for Project Nimbus, a cloud-computing project of the Israeli 
government.

Demands also include that Google cease all “business with the Israeli 
apartheid government and military,” stop the “harassment, intimidation, 
bullying, and silencing,” of Palestinian and Muslim employees, and address 
the “health and safety crisis” among workers who are rattled over their 
labor being used to “enable a genocide.”

Organized by No Tech for Apartheid, the protesters claim they will remain 
in the office until Google drops Project Nimbus and heeds the other 
demands.

Anti-Semitism appears to be rampant throughout Google’s workforce. In 
February, The Daily Wire reported on internal anti-Semitic incidents 
taking place at Google, including the words “kill all Jews” found written 
on a bathroom wall inside its offices, and a Jewish employee being 
assaulted by anti-Israel protesters on one of their campuses. The Daily 
Wire also reported that a group of employees attempted to hijack an 
International Women’s Day event to bash Israel.

“By choosing to provide the Israeli government and military with our 
powerful cloud computing and AI technologies, we have continuously enabled 
Israel’s apartheid state in Palestine and ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the 
protesters write in a letter to Kurian. “Years of being silenced, ignored 
and lied to by leadership has confirmed to us as workers that our concerns 
will not be heard without significant action, and as you read this, we are 
sitting in the office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, until our 
demands are met.”

Protests also took place at other Google offices in New York City, San 
Francisco, and Seattle.

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