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Microsoft Asked FBI for Help Tracking Palestinian Protests
Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week. Executive Brad Smith said he welcomed discussion but not disruption.
Earlier this month, the company announced an investigation into reports by the Guardian newspaper and other news outlets that Israel’s military surveillance agency intercepted millions of Palestinian mobile phone calls, stored them on Microsoft servers then used the data to select bombing targets in Gaza. The two early-career company engineers — who respectively hail from the Chicago area and Morocco — had both decided to leave Microsoft over its ties to Israel, which had been documented in a series of articles, including by the Associated Press, and reached out to No Azure for Apartheid. By then, the activists’ tactics had started to come into focus: weaponize the resignations of disaffected employees while generally stopping short of the sort of actions that tend to lead to violence or mass firings.
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