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Google Listed as Sponsor, Host of Israeli Military Tech Conference

Google's Tel Aviv office was to host a military tech conference in Israel, but scrubbed any internet record of it after being asked.

In July, Google’s name was mysteriously removed from the website of a separate IT for IDF conference, meant to highlight tech companies working with the Israel Defense Forces, which identified it as a co-sponsor. For the past year, Google-sponsored conferences have been the target of people protesting Project Nimbus, the $1.2 billion contract it shares with Amazon that involves providing cloud services and other tools to the Israeli government. Shortly after news about Project Nimbus became public in 2021, hundreds of Google and Amazon workers signed and published an open letter condemning it, and the activist group No Tech for Apartheid formed.

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