{"id":297483,"date":"2024-10-28T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297483"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:50:31","slug":"microsoft-fires-employees-who-organized-vigil-for-palestinians-killed-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297483","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt O\u2019Brien \u2013 AP Oct 26, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company\u2019s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel\u2019s war with Hamas.<\/p>\n

The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late Thursday, several hours after a lunchtime event they organized at Microsoft\u2019s campus in Redmond, Washington.<\/p>\n

Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called \u201cNo Azure for Apartheid\u201d that has opposed Microsoft\u2019s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. But they contended that Thursday\u2019s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have so many community members within Microsoft who have lost family, lost friends or loved ones,\u201d said Abdo Mohamed, a researcher and data scientist. \u201cBut Microsoft really failed to have the space for us where we can come together and share our grief and honor the memories of people who can no longer speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft said Friday it has \u201cended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy\u201d but declined to provide details.<\/p>\n

Mohamed, who is from Egypt, said he now needs a new job in the next two months to transfer a work visa and avoid deportation.<\/p>\n

Another fired worker, Hossam Nasr, said the purpose of the vigil was both \u201cto honor the victims of the Palestinian genocide in Gaza and to call attention to Microsoft\u2019s complicity in the genocide\u201d because of the use of its technology by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn\u2019t immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on how it learned about the firing.<\/p>\n

The same group had months earlier called on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to take action against Nasr for his public stances on Israel.<\/p>\n

Nasr, an Egyptian-raised 2021 graduate of Harvard University, is also a co-organizer of Harvard Alumni for Palestine.<\/p>\n

Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war<\/a>. The firings stemmed from internal turmoil and sit-in protests at Google offices centered on \u201cProject Nimbus,\u201d a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 for Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.<\/p>\n

Microsoft said in its statement Friday about the firings that it remains \u201cdedicated to maintaining a professional and respectful work environment. Due to privacy and confidentiality considerations, we cannot provide specific details.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Microsoft fires employees who organized vigils for Palestinians killed in Gaza at the company\u2019s headquarters. One of those fired, Hossam Nasr, said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before Microsoft actually fired him <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297486,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297483\/revisions\/297486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}