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Microsoft sacks two workers who organised vigil for Palestinian genocide victims

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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