Google’s employees protest against working with Zionist entity

WORLD, April 18 (YPA) –  US police arrested a group of Google employees on Tuesday after they held a sit-in protest to challenge the tech giant’s work for the Israeli government.

Employees from the No Tech For Apartheid movement organised a 10-hour sit-in at Google’s offices in New York and California on Tuesday.

During the protest, activists targeted the office of Thomas Kurian, the chief executive of Google Cloud, amid a row over a $1bn (£800m) contract with Israel.

Videos posted on social media showed nine protesters subsequently being removed by police.

This led to a spokesman for the protest group, Jane Chung, criticizing Google in a post on X: “Google orders arrest against its workers for protesting.”

A live-stream video of the incident at Google’s California office showed a security worker telling protesters that they had been placed on “admin leave”, while also warning them about trespassing.

Later footage shows California police officers moving into the office, asking protesters if they are “refusing to leave” before they are marched out in handcuffs.

A separate video from Google’s New York office also shows protesters being arrested.

The protests represent an escalation in the row between tech workers and executives over Google’s work in Israel.

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