CNN ignores AIPAC when talking about the “extremists” impacting US politics.
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.
Hundreds of workers at Google and Amazon are demanding that the companies cut ties with the Israeli military.
Robert Cohen, British anti-Zionist, is accused of being a “champagne boycotter,” because he urges boycott of Israel while using computer products from companies heavily invested in Israel. But BDS doesn’t target Intel, because it has a virtual global monopoly and thus a boycott would not succeed. The real hypocrisy is talking up human rights and opposition to nukes while enforcing an apartheid system and secretly holding nukes.