US tech company Google has fired one of its engineers who expressed support for Palestine during a technology event in New York, the Middle East Eye website reported on Friday.
A spokesperson for Google told the website that the employee, a software engineer, was sacked for “interfering with an official company-sponsored event”.
Al Jazeera reported that videos of the incident showed the employee speaking out against Google’s Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2bn cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.
He was heard shouting “I refuse to build technology that empowers genocide” and “Project Nimbus puts Palestinian community members in danger.”
Campaign group No Tech for Apartheid accused Google of engaging in a “clear cut act of retaliation” by firing the employee.
It said the dismissed worker was “proud to be fired for refusing to be complicit in genocide”.
