Ron DeSantis comes sputtering into the Republican presidential primary and has placed his unwavering commitment to Israel at the center of his foreign policy agenda.
Michael Arria speaks to organizers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign discuss its current state and what’s next in the effort to end tech support for Israel’s apartheid system.
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.