BREAKING—Joint statement from @Amazon, @Google, & @Microsoft workers organizing with the #NoTechForApartheid and @NoAzureForApartheid campaigns in response to yesterday’s Just Vision media/972+ Mag investigation revealing even more details on the corporations’ role as the technological backbone of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Not unlike IBM’s assistance to Nazi Germany in surveilling, calculating, assigning death to Jewish people during the Holocaust, Big Tech corporations today are directly assisting the Israeli military in its genocidal campaign. Amazon, Google, & Microsoft are the technological backbone of this genocide.
AWS enables the Israeli military to search for and store information about almost every single Palestinian in Gaza–giving Israel ongoing access to unprecedented amounts of information to power its genocide. In fact, Israeli military intelligence used data stored on AWS ‘to provide ‘supplementary information’ ahead of airstrikes against suspected military operatives, some of which killed many civilians.’ The ease with which Amazon, Google, & Microsoft allow Israeli military intelligence access to data storage services to store and retrieve vast troves of intelligence data has been compared to the ease with which consumers around the world can “order from Amazon.”
We refuse to allow our labor to be used to power Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Amazon and Google must end their Project Nimbus cloud computing contract with Israel, and all tech corporations, including Microsoft, must cease doing business with Israel’s Occupation Forces and apartheid state.
We won’t stop organizing until our companies stop powering this genocide and until Palestine is free. We call on all tech workers of conscience to join our fight.
Google/Amazon worker? Join NOTA campaign ➡️ t.ly/NotaGeneralIntake
Microsoft worker? Follow @noazureforapartheid
