Tell Microsoft To Stop Partnering With Israel’s Genocide
UPDATE: Aug. 19, 2025
Microsoft workers didn’t sign up for employment in the service of genocide, but new reports reveal that their CEO, Satya Nadella, did.
That’s why dozens of Microsoft workers, both former and current, escalated their efforts on August 19 to pressure Microsoft to divest from the Israeli military. Inspired by the student encampments, No Azure for Apartheid claimed a plaza at Microsoft HQ to voice their demands, before being shut down hours later and forced to leave by police.
New investigations into Microsoft’s cloud storage for “millions of calls” — surveillance data extracted from Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank — reveal that Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, agreed to a plan in 2021 to “grant Unit 8200 [Israel’s military surveillance agency] access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.”¹
The investigations suggest that the stored data and subsequent additions have been used to create AI-produced kill lists for targeting and bombing in Gaza.
TAKE ACTION: Send letters today and tell Microsoft leaders to divest from genocide.
Source:
- “‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians,” The Guardian, Aug. 6, 2025.
UPDATE: May 29, 2025
Microsoft workers continue to pressure leadership at the company, and most recently at Microsoft BUILD, where another set of workers disrupted talks on AI to let conference attendees know that Microsoft’s AI and Azure are still powering a horrific genocide in Gaza.Following a rally and march, workers and allies were pepper-sprayed and arrested but are undeterred.
Lots of media coverage, including on how the company is blocking emails with the word “Palestine,” in internal email exchanges in the company. See more here.
UPDATE: May 16, 2025
Microsoft is no longer ignoring us.
After relentless pressure from Microsoft workers, three news exposés, and over 300,000 letters from activists like you, the company has finally responded with a statement on its tech use by Israel during the genocidal war on Gaza.¹
Israel’s AI program — which required external tech support, including support from Microsoft — “has been a behind-the-scenes force accelerating the death toll in Gaza, which has claimed [over] 45,000 lives.”²
Let’s be clear: Microsoft doesn’t take any responsibility for enabling a genocide. But we’ve forced them to stop remaining silent, to admit that they’re concerned, and that they do provide technology to Israel’s military.
Now is the time for us to ramp up the pressure. Tell Microsoft: No tech for genocide.
Microsoft claims that after conducting its internal investigation, with “external fact-finding,” they’ve found “no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza.”
We do not accept that claim, and neither do the workers who issued a statement in response to the company’s PR.³
Leaked documents published on Jan. 23, 2025, expose a well-established partnership between Israel’s military operations and Microsoft. Israel’s military used Microsoft’s cloud platform (Azure, a “suite of communications and messaging systems”), millions of dollars of engineering support, and more during Israel’s attacks in Gaza.⁴
Palestinian men, women, and children are being massacred and starved. Over 51,000 Palestinians are confirmed dead. More than 17,000 were children.⁵
Microsoft is a partner in genocide, and we will continue to hold them accountable until they stop enabling genocide.
Take action today.
Thank you.
Sources:
- “Microsoft Statement on the Issues Relating to Technology Services in Israel and Gaza,” (accessed May 16, 2025).
- “Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war,” The Guardian, Jan. 23, 2025.
- “Microsoft admits complicity in genocide in a failed attempt to deny their involvement — No Azure for Apartheid campaign statement,” Medium, May 16, 2025.
- “The Israeli Military Is One of Microsoft’s Top AI Customers, Leaked Documents Reveal,” Drop Site, Jan. 23, 2025.
- “Israel-Gaza war death toll: Live tracker,” Al Jazeera, March 18, 2025.
