"Google Fires 28 Employees Over Israeli Government Contract Protest"

Google terminated 28 employees who participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government, citing disruption of work and violation of policies. The protesting employees, affiliated with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, accused Google of valuing its contract with the Israeli government over its workers. The contract in question, Project Nimbus, is a $1.2bn deal to supply cloud services to the Israeli government, which the protesting faction claims supports the development of military tools. This is not the first time Google has faced internal resistance over its government contracts, as employees successfully pushed the company to shelve a contract with the US military in 2018.