Top Recruits Boycott Google-Amazon Over Israeli War Crimes

[yankeedoodle]

Top Recruits Boycott Google-Amazon Over Israeli War Crimes
https://theinteldrop.com/2022/08/02/top-recruits-boycott-google-amazon-over-israeli-war-crimes/

Jessica Buxbaum

As Google and Amazon employees fight back against the tech giants' Israeli military contract, college graduates have also joined the resistance.

Amid Israel's assault on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem in May 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to Israel's public sector and its military, known as Project Nimbus.

In response, Google and Amazon workers formed a coalition opposing Project Nimbus as well as strategizing against the technology's implementation.

While just over a year old, Google and Amazon have not addressed the Workers Against Nimbus and #NoTechForApartheid campaigns publicly, but the activist network has had success in cutting the corporations' power —  even if only slightly.

"The students who are graduating from university and who have applied to Amazon and Google are turning down all of these interview requests," an anonymous Amazon employee told MintPress News, describing how it makes them hopeful to see that kind of community support. "They're specifically telling Amazon and Google, 'We're not going to these interviews because of Project Nimbus.'''

Earlier this month, activists disrupted the keynote speech at an AWS summit in New York City, drawing attention to the tech behemoth's controversial contract with the Israeli government.

"By doing business with Israeli apartheid, Amazon and Google will make it easier for the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians and force them off their land," a website for the #NoTechForApartheid campaign says.

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Outside the summit's venue, Google employee Gabriel Schubiner addressed protesters. "As tech workers we need to ask ourselves: do we want a world where militaries around the world are training AI [artificial intelligence] for surveillance and targeting on our hardware?" Schubiner said. "Do we want to give nationalist armies of the world our technology?"

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Google and AWS beat out IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft for an Israeli government tender last year to jointly build and provide cloud-based regional data centers within Israel's borders and under Israeli law. Project Nimbus will allow Israeli ministries and other public entities to transfer servers and services into the cloud. Local data centers are expected to be completed within two years. Until then, cloud services will be provided by Google and AWS data centers in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany.

The contract also includes a provision stipulating Amazon and Google cannot shut down operations and deny services to certain government entities, effectively barring the tech firms from engaging in a boycott of Israel or stopping the technology from being used to enact human rights abuses.

The Workers Against Project Nimbus campaign described how they felt during the Israeli 2021 attacks and why they were compelled to join together.

"[W]e had to face the fact that those of us Palestinian tech workers with family and loved ones in Gaza or the West Bank, those of us living in diaspora, would now be enabling violence and oppression against our own communities – all while professing the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,"  The Workers Against Project Nimbus said in a July 26 Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) newsletter.

Google and Amazon did not respond to requests for comment on Project Nimbus or the worker-led campaign against it.

[abduLMaria]

I have 40+ years' experience solving difficult Supply Chain problems, which usually involves setting up 2nd and 3rd production sources, including setting up the production lines themselves.

Mostly Electronics.  I have not set up a production line for Tampons, which I hear also are in a shortage condition.

But I have learned to not work for Jews !

I also don't work for Terrorists, or pay taxes to them.  The US government for example.

My Linked In page says as much.

My guess is, some find it very entertaining, and some find it quite alarming.

[yankeedoodle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GI-ePG0rTA

PALESTINIAN, JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND ARAB GOOGLE EMPLOYEES SPEAK OUT
Read their comments here:  https://jewishdiasporatech.org/voices