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Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract


The employees were protesting against “Project Nimbus.”

Some of them occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian until they were forcibly removed by law enforcement. In a response statement, the “No Tech for Apartheid” group behind the protests called Google’s firings a “flagrant act of retaliation.” “In the three years that we have been organizing against Project Nimbus, we have yet to hear from a single executive about our concerns,” the group wrote in a post on Medium.

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