A coalition of Amazon and Google workers released an open letter Tuesday calling on their respective employers to pull out of a contract with the Israeli govenment.
More than 300 Amazon and nearly 100 Google employees have anonymously signed the letter published in the Guardian demanding the termination of Project Nimbus.
Both companies are providing cloud services to the Israeli military and government under the $1.2 billion contract signed earlier this year.
“This contract was signed the same week that the Israeli military attacked Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – killing nearly 250 people, including more than 60 children,” the workers wrote.
“The technology our companies have contracted to build will make the systematic discrimination and displacement carried out by the Israeli military and government even crueler and deadlier for Palestinians,” they added.
The cloud services will help Israel illegally collect data on Palestinians, the workers argue, that will be used to further policies that Human Rights Watch says constitute crimes of apartheid.
Read more at The Hill.
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Did the sign anonymous four hundred times?
Should Amazon or Google cave in to these demands it will time for all friends of Israel to look for substitutes for these company.