Google told Fox Business that it has terminated the employee who interrupted an Israeli speaker at the 'Mind the Tech' conference earlier this week.
The Google employee who interrupted a tech conference by unleashing an anti-Israel rant and accusing his company of "power genocide" has been terminated, FOX Business has learned. The disruption happened at New York City's "Mind the Tech" conference on Monday. Google Israel managing director Barak Regev was giving a lecture at the time.
'm a Google cloud software engineer, and I refused to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance!" the employee said, referring to the Israeli military's bombardment of Gaza. "Project Nimbus puts Palestinian community members in danger," the Google employee shouted, as the audience appeared to groan at his speech. "I refused to build technology that powers genocide.
Project Nimbus is a $1.2 billion contract between Amazon Web Services, Google and Israel. The project helps provide cloud services for the Israeli government and military. Regev handled the interruption coolly and commended Google for being a "democratic" institution that allowed different opinions before he continued with his speech. Google confirmed the termination of the employee to FOX Business.
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