Google fires 28 employees who protested against its contract with Israel

Google has fired 28 employees after they protested against the company's cloud-computing contract with Israel, called Project Nimbus. The employees had staged sit-in protests at two Google offices recently. On Tuesday, some employees were even arrested after they refused to move from Google's Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office for more than eight hours. The news of Google firing the protestors comes after the arrests were made. As per an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Google has said that it has no place for such behaviour and will not tolerate it.

As per a report in The Verge, Google has fired 28 employees for protesting against Project Nimbus. In a memo obtained by the publication, the company's head of global security, Chris Rackow, warned employees against such behaviour and said that they won't tolerate it.

The memo began by mentioning how some Google employees staged sit-in protests at the tech giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale. "They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers," the memo said.