BREAKING: Google's contract with Israel's government requires direct
support to weapons corporations and to a quasi-governmental body tasked
with expanding illegal settlements. Google's been lying to the world about
"Project Nimbus", but this leak proves that the protesting Google workers
were right.

Tell Google to stop lying, drop the Israeli government contract and
respect human rights.

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John,

While the world has been reeling in horror at the genocide in Gaza and
deadly pogroms against Palestinians in the West Bank – Google is pressing
ahead with a massive government and military cloud computer contract in
Israel.

Google workers say that this technology is directly enabling Israel’s
crimes against Palestinians. And they are fighting back.

Last month tens of Google employees staged simultaneous sit-ins in New
York and California, putting their bodies in the way to defend human
rights and disrupt the $1.2 billion Israeli government contract.

Google bosses retaliated by firing 50 of them (even workers who weren't
protesting!), but pressure is mounting on the tech giant to drop the
Israeli government contract. Let's add our voices and spread the word now:

[ [link removed] ]Tell Google: drop the Israeli government contract and respect human
rights

It’s all over the media. One Google software engineer who participated in
the New York City sit-in protest in April said that by providing cloud and
AI infrastructure to the Israeli military, Google is “directly implicated
in the genocide of the Palestinian people.”

Now journalists at The Intercept have an official Israeli government
document which proves that Google's statement that the contract is "not
directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant
to weapons or intelligence services" is untrue. In fact, the contract
commits Google to directly support Israel's weapons corporations.

Google is having a PR meltdown. A crackdown announcement to all employees,
leaked to the media, warns “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to
think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think
again.” Sounds a little desperate, doesn’t it?

The truth is, the contract – called Project Nimbus – has drawn
condemnation from shareholders as well as employees, over concerns that
the project will lead to further abuses of Palestinians' human rights. But
we need to grow this campaign all around the world, to change the calculus
for the bosses at Google.

There's no other way. The contract with the Israeli government apparently
forbids Google from denying service to any particular government entities.
So the only way for Google to end complicity in war crimes committed by
the Israeli military is to drop the contract completely.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Google: drop Project Nimbus and respect human rights for all

We’ve been fighting in solidarity with tech workers and impacted
communities for years. After public pressure, Microsoft sold its stake in
AnyVision, a facial recognition startup implicated in Israeli human rights
abuses. In 2020, we helped get Apple to adopt a landmark human rights
policy to protect its customers. And the Ekō community is still
campaigning to stop Google and Microsoft from building data centres in
Saudi Arabia, where we know the government will stop at nothing to silence
journalists and dissidents.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Eoin, Leili and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Statement from the No Tech For Apartheid campaign on bombshell
investigation confirming that Project Nimbus requires Israeli weapons
manufacturers to run on Amazon and Google’s cloud services
No Tech For Apartheid campaign 01 May 2024
 
[ [link removed] ]Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud
contract
The Verge 18 April 2024
 
[ [link removed] ]No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s
$1.2B Contract with Israel
DemocracyNow [VIDEO] 17 April 2024
 
[ [link removed] ]Exclusive: Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry
TIME 12 April 2024
 
[ [link removed] ]‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
+972 Magazine 03 April 2024
 
[ [link removed] ]Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in
Gaza
United Nations 26 March 2024

 

 

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