Google employees are witnessing escalating disagreements over the company's business ties with Israel, which include a $1.2 billion agreement to provide cloud services to the Israeli government called Project Nimbus.
On Wednesday, a group of Google employees published an open letter on the Medium website demanding that the technology giant cancel “Project Nimbus.”
The letter criticizes the company's double standards regarding freedom of expression surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian war. It condemns "hatred, abuse and revenge" within the company against Muslim, Arab and Palestinian workers.
The letter did not include the identities of the employees who wrote it for fear of “retaliation,” and called on CEO Sundar Pichai, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and other senior leaders at the tech giant to condemn “the ongoing genocide in the strongest possible terms.” In addition, they are urging the company to cancel Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal to supply the Israeli military with artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.
The group said: “We demand that Google stop providing material support for this genocide by canceling the Nimbus Project contract and immediately stop dealing with the Israeli apartheid government and its army.”
Critics and activists working at Google have attacked the Nimbus project since the contract was signed in 2021, claiming that it gives Israel tools to secretly monitor Palestine.
The letter begins: “We are Muslim, Palestinian and Arab employees at Google, joined by anti-Zionist Jewish colleagues. We cannot remain silent in the face of the hate, abuse and retaliation we are being subjected to in the workplace at this moment.”
The No Tech For Apartheid petition has collected 47329 signatures, which is "heeding the call from over 1000 Google and Amazon workers to rise up against the contract, known as Project Nimbus" and "demands Amazon & Google stop doing business with Israeli apartheid & powering the genocidal bombing of Palestinians in Gaza".
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