Employees fired by phone call hours after memorial event
Software giant Microsoft has sacked two workers after they organised a vigil at the company’s Redmond HQ for Palestinian victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The pair said they were fired by phone call several hours after the lunchtime event on Thursday.
Egyptians Hossam Nasr and Abdo Mohamed were members of employee coalition “No Azure for Apartheid”, which opposes the sale of Microsoft’s cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. Mohamed is reportedly at risk of deportation if he does not quickly find another job in the US.
According to whoprofits.org, Microsoft has deep and extensive links to Israel, including wholly-owned Israeli subsidiaries and the provision of software and cloud computing services to Israel’s military, which has killed as many as two hundred thousand Palestinians, mostly women and children, and displaced two million people, since 7 October last year and is both brutally suppressing resistance in the occupied West Bank and is bombing residential areas daily as part of its invasion – riddled with war crimes and terrorism but so far unsuccessful and costly, with hundreds of troops killed or wounded and dozens of tanks lost – of Lebanon.
Earlier this year, Microsoft’s rival Google sacked more than fifty workers after protests over its billions in business with the Israeli government in the middle of the Gaza genocide.
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On another matter
Trump on Joe Rogan talking about the JFK Files, took advice from one of the good guys – Mike Pompeo !
Normally this is where I shout ‘I want Me Mam’ but I’m a big lad now aged 65, can someone tell me how I can join the BRICS
That’s it
A straight choice between the BRICS and the Pricks
On BRICS
It is not designed to replace the current World order, it will however reform it
If you want to do business and live in Peace then its time to start playing nicely
So the rules based system will be enforced and everyone of the fuckers responsible for Jews committing Genocide and Fighting to the last Ukrainian will be brought to justice
Then it’s back to where we started ‘Never Again’
‘Big Tech’ didn’t seem to be noticeably pro-Israel (more than normal) at the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. F’book, M’soft and Google each seemed to adopt a anti-Palestine position at different points months into the “war” – as Skwawkie knows to its cost with Fb-Meta, and we can all/each probably verfy with google search results.
What is the relationship between US security agencies and Big Tech? Is one ‘a dog’ and one ‘a tail’?
I have no idea – but they’re questions that need to be posed.
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(although, I’m sure the all-knowing experts trading as Fact-Checkers and Verify are already fully-prepared for such Conspiracy theo….. emmm… QUESTIONS).
Well I dont know about BRICS but Ireland are making
up their own mind about the situation …. and it is not
particularly sympathetic with either BRICS
or “The West” In fact Irish Universities are providing
scholarships in the Tech area for Palestinians.
If Trump becomes President dont expect
anything remotely coherent. Remember it was he who trashed
the tentative agreement with Iran over nuclear power and also
formally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Luckily Microsoft do not have sole control over Big Tach ..
.. and they are going to find themselves losing staff if they
pursue this policy
I am surprised that a row has not already started .. or maybe it has
but not been reported by the MSM
Yeah Holby, in GB they’re called HESPAL (Higher Education Scholarships for Palestinians). British Council says there’s 6 PhD and 8 Masters scholarships available for Palestinian graduates in Britain. I didn’t know about Ireland’s, thanks.
I’ll try and find a link to Ireland’s Scholarships. I only heard of it because
I know someone who is involved in it.
I had not heard of the GB offer – no mention of it anywhere ..
Talking of “help” did you know about the “Friends of the Holy Land” charity?
They are a Christian Organisation – mainly helping Christians. However in the process they
employ many Muslims.
Meanwhile I watched the BBC report on the Palestinian Dr who had discovered his son
had been killed – shot by the IDF . Am not sure if it was the same as the one reported
here on Skwawkbox.
Well, turns out the UK universities scheme is far from generous, i mean all-encompassing. https://www.britishcouncil.ps/sites/default/files/hespal_guidance_notes_for_applicants_english.pdf Students need significant money to be able to get a scholarship. Cynics say that it hardly costs participating universities anything and they get good PR from it and attract some of the brightest minds in the world.
No, I didn’t know about Friends of the Holy Land. At the time of the first Nakba it’s estimated that Christians made up between 14 and 18% of the Palestine population. Sadly, of all the people forcibly displaced by the settlers, Christians were proportionally more than even 20%. A big part of the 500k or so people who today call themselves Arab Christians in the middle east were forcibly ejected by Israel, so I’m glad there are charities like Friends of HL to support the surviving Christians there.
looked them up Holby . The olive wood beads, bookmarks and Christmas cards look v good..
https://www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk/Pages/Shop/Default.aspx