A new report from UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese uncovers the economic interests benefiting from Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Google’s acquisition of Israeli software company, Wiz, for $32 billion shows just how much Silicon Valley is invested in Israeli tech. The problem is, almost all of Israeli tech is first developed by a genocidal army.
As a university steeped in the legacy of Balfour, we have an urgent duty to end complicity in Israel’s settler colonial project. Divestment from companies complicit in occupation, apartheid, and genocide is the first step toward historical redress.
Former Google employee Ariel Koren says the company has “sustained a culture of silencing anti-Zionist Jews and creating toxic and unjust conditions for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim workers.”
A Google employee in California says she was relocated to Brazil after calling on the company to terminate its contract with the Israeli government.
In October, software engineers at Google and Amazon wrote an anonymous open letter objecting to Project Nimbus – a $1.2 billion contract that would provide these companies’ services to the Israeli state – because of the harm it would bring to Palestinians. Yet these companies’ complicity with Israel’s colonial project goes far beyond direct contracts with the Israeli state.
The movement for Palestinian liberation has long engaged with labor struggles around the world, and this moment is no different. Michael Arria talks to organizers in the tech industry working to counter Project Nimbus, a joint Amazon/Google project with the Israeli military.