Gaza protesters block entrance to Google conference over Israel contracts

Google I/O attendees were redirected to another entrance as protesters denounced company's ties to Israeli military projects

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters chained themselves together in front of the entrance to Google's annual developer conference on Tuesday in protest of the tech company's ties to Israeli military projects. Thousands of attendees waiting to enter Google I/O were redirected to another entrance, and the event started on time.

Groups including the No Tech for Genocide coalition and other groups from across the Bay Area held a sign reading Google stop fueling genocide". They chanted we won't stop til Nimbus gets dropped," referencing a $1.2bn project supported by Amazon and Google that provides provides artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli government.