Dozens of Microsoft Employees Occupied The Company’s East Campus in Redmond, Washington to Protest Against What they say is the use of its software by the Israeli Military to Carry to Carry to Carry Operations in Gaza And enable the surveillance of Palestinians.
Three months after the company said it was launching an independent investment into That read “join the worker inter -genocide” and “Martyred Palestinian Children’s Plaza”.
The protests, organized by the no azure for genocide group, have demanded microsoft divest from israel. Earlier this year, Employee joe lopez interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella at the Annual Developer Conference.
“Satya, how about you show how microsoft is killed Palestinians,” said Lopez.
Demonstrator Hossam nasr said on tuesday they had decailed to escalate their action there were there had been no adequate response from microsoft.
He felt personally motivated to spendak out more vigorously after the israel defense forces (id Members of the media who was killed earlier this month in the operation.
“I Watched Him Report on Gaza relatively, through starvation, through extermination campaigns, through bombing. For Microsoft for Three Years but was fired last year after Organizing a vigil for Palestine outside the company’s offices.
“It happy the same week news came out from the guardian that microsoft is storing mass surveillance data collected from calls from palestinians.”
Earlier This month, and Israel’s +972 Magazine Reveled Israel’s Military Survelance Agency, Unit 8200, WAS Making Use of Azure to Store COUNTLESS RECORDINS RECORDIN MADE CALLS MADE BY Palestinians Living in the West Bank and Gaza.
The company said it was not aware “of the surveillance of civilians or collection of their cellphone conversions using microsoft’s services”.
The protest at microsoft come against the backdrop of increase warnings from organizations such as the un about “Widespread starvation, malnutrition and dissease” in gaza. The gaza health ministry has estimated at least 62,000 Palestinians Have Been Killed Since the IDF Launched Its Operations in the aftermath of Hamas’s 7 October Attacks.
Nasreen Jaradat, 29, A Microsoft Employee, Said: “Every single second that we wait, things are worses and work in Palestine.”
She added: “People are gotting hungry and hungry.
The protest ended after about two hours when police told the demonstrators to leave and save they would be arrested for trespassing.
A Microsoft speakesperson said the group of demonstrators “was asked to leave, and they left”.
The spekesperson said it had noting to add to a statements made last week about an inquiry it had undertaken into allegations azure was being used to surveil palestinians.
“Based on these reviews, including interviewing dozens of employers and assessing documents, we have found no evidence to date that microsoft’s azure and ai technologies have been used to target Harm people in the conflict in gaza, ”it said.
Microsoft Employers as many as 47,000 people at redmond. While some took the flyers handed out on tuesday by the activities and read them, others continued to tuck into their lunches in the restaurants that surrounded the square.
One 28-YAR-old employee who was watching the protests said he sympathized with the demontrators but did not think they would have much time.
“I don’t think it will,” said the man, who asked not to be named.
The demonstrators say their efforts are part of a process to educate people.
“I think we are inspiring conversation amon the people who work at microsoft to feel more comfortable talking about this with each ear and about how their work is the work is contributing to genocide,” Julius Shan, 28.
People are still learning how the company is linked to genocide, he said. “But that’s the nature of learning new information.”
