Microsoft worker emails colleagues about company's support for genocidal Israel
8 hours ago
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- A Microsoft employee in Italy resigned and emailed colleagues, accusing the company of supporting genocide in Gaza by expanding European data centers for mass surveillance and weaponry testing.
- The employee, 'Nour', claimed Microsoft hosts intercepted Palestinian phone call data in Dutch and Irish data centers, used by Israeli military for airstrikes, arrests, blackmail, and AI-targeting programs.
- Microsoft allegedly whitewashed investigations and colluded with Israel to move surveillance data to occupied territories, with Irish data centers supporting the Al-Munasseq app for constant Palestinian surveillance.
- The No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA) campaign, led by Microsoft workers, has pressured the company to cut ties with Israeli military and spy agencies, including terminating a contract with Unit 8200.
- Tech workers globally, including in Jordan and Ireland, are protesting Microsoft's complicity, staging mass email actions and defying speech restrictions, with some facing suspension or termination.
- Nour urged colleagues to join the Worker Intifada, learn about Microsoft's role, divest labor from Israel, sign petitions, and join NOAA to end the company's involvement in mass murder.
- The article highlights hypocrisy in Microsoft's ethical commitments, climate impacts of AI systems powering war efforts, and global worker resistance against being complicit in crimes against humanity.