Google fires 28 staff after protest against firm’s contract with Israeli government

Google workers linked to No Tech for Apartheid denounce flagrant act of retaliation' in dispute over $1.2bn cloud contract

Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government. Employees staged sit-ins at their offices, some for more than eight hours.

The Alphabet unit said a small number of pro-Palestine employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations. They occupied the office of the chief technology officer of Google Cloud and held posters reading No cloud apartheid", Googlers against genocide" and Don't be evil, stop retaliation", a reference to Google's former corporate slogan.