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Re:Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event as ... by aaomidi on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:10PM (#39644895)
When I was at Google, Google was systematically silencing Arabs and Palestinians. They had brought in a specific team to comb through memegen and silence any pro-Palestinian (literally pro the people, while anti Hamas) messaging.

While I was there, multiple Googlers actively reached out to me and other Arabs and asked them "Do you support Hamas?" These also weren't just low-level employees either. I had these experiences from software developers all the way to managers and HR people.

These employees that did that are still employed at Google despite the complaints. Multiple Arab and Palestianian coworkers of mine have also left Google since then.

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Re:Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event as ... by bingleboy on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:33PM (#39645250)
For anyone else interested in the facts here is one small source: https://respondcrisistranslation.org/en/newsb/20231102-mistr...
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Re:Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event as ... by smashah on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:20PM (#39645070)
The whole tech industry has this issue. Ex-Israeli Einsatzgruppen Force employees come into a company then everyone else with a conscience has to be silenced.

Which is strange because Israel is the only Democracy in the Solar System so how come most of their people eliminate freedoms wherever they go? Like the UAE. After normalization, repression of thought in the UAE has skyrocketed, powered by Israeli Cyberweapons (and most likely Google Cloud).

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Re:Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event as ... by krapp on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:17PM (#39645019)
Protesting Israel is not equivalent to supporting Hamas. Plenty of Jews are doing the same, how many Hamas supporters do you believe are among them?
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Re:Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event as ... by aaomidi on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:17PM (#39645016)
No one was supporting Hamas.

Again, read the initial message. (I'm just going to flag anyone who keeps actively misreading this at this point.)

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