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Hossam Nasr was never under the impression Microsoft is a\u00a0force for good, but says he \u200b\u201c<\/span>did genuinely believe it to be one of the lesser evil big tech companies.\u201d So when he graduated with a\u00a0computer science degree, he took a\u00a0job there and moved to its Seattle campus in 2021<\/span>. \u200b\u201c<\/span>I sort of felt like I\u00a0had to work at a\u00a0big tech company,\u201d he recalls, \u200b\u201c<\/span>because that was the definition of what success in my field looks\u00a0like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>

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To his horror, he discovered the cloud storage service he worked on, Azure, provided the Israeli military with artificial intelligence tools essential to the post-October 2023<\/span> onslaught on Gaza. He says he was unaware his labor had been contributing to the very military operations filling his social media feed with massacres at refugee camps, bombed-out apartments, and lifeless children pulled from the\u00a0rubble.<\/p>\n

To fight back, Nasr helped start an internal worker organizing effort, No Azure for Apartheid, and in late October of 2024<\/span>, he organized a\u00a0vigil on the Microsoft campus \u200b\u201c<\/span>to honor the victims of the\u00a0genocide.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The next day, he says he received \u200b\u201c<\/span>a phone call that said my employment was terminated, effective\u00a0immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley sells itself as an engine for human progress, in which technology can conquer problems and improve society. But in protesting his employer, Nasr joined an increasingly vocal minority of tech workers who are so concerned about their own complicity in war crimes they are risking their jobs to organize against their companies\u2019 war\u00a0production.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Big Tech is, in fact, a\u00a0weapons industry in the business of identifying bomb targets, spying on oppressed and occupied populations, and providing the infrastructure that enables crimes against humanity. The tech sector has always profited from war, but such profits, generated by contracts with the U.S. military and foreign ones like Israel\u2019s, are increasingly central to the industry\u2019s model for accumulating wealth\u2009\u2014\u2009and power. From 2019<\/span> to 2022<\/span>, the top five contracts granted by military and intelligence agencies to major tech companies totaled more than $62<\/span> billion, according to a\u00a02024<\/span> report for Costs of War at Brown University, by anthropologist Roberto J. Gonz\u00e1lez. Amazon provides cloud storage services, and Palantir provides surveillance, that have been critical to Israel\u2019s war on Gaza since October 2023<\/span> that has been denounced by scholars and human rights observers as a\u00a0genocide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While the worker revolt against Silicon Valley\u2019s war crimes represents a\u00a0small fraction of the overall workforce, this is the sector of America\u2019s war industry with the most internal protest and refusal. Groups like No Tech for Apartheid are organizing from within Amazon and Google, while groups like Purge Palantir are building external pressure against the company, often in concert with workers in other industries who don\u2019t want their companies to contract with Palantir. In many cases, workers who get fired from their tech jobs in retaliation for dissenting against their employer are still organizing with the movement years later. The present wave of organizing goes back more than five years but has grown significantly since Israel\u2019s 2023<\/span> onslaught on Gaza, which raised the stakes for tech workers concerned about their own\u00a0complicity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I knew that I\u00a0had to do anything and everything I\u00a0have in my power,\u201d says Nasr, \u200b\u201c<\/span>in whatever sort of domain I\u00a0find myself in, whether that\u2019s work or school or just in the streets in Seattle, or anything I\u00a0can think of, to just try to make the genocide\u00a0stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since the mid-20<\/span>th<\/sup> century, military contracts helped make Silicon Valley what it is, funding early research in microwave electronics, missiles, satellites, and semiconductors. An early precursor to the internet emerged from ARPANET, a\u00a0collaboration between a\u00a0Pentagon agency and university\u00a0researchers.<\/p>\n

Ash Carter, former President Barack Obama\u2019s defense secretary, made a\u00a0deliberate effort to strengthen the Pentagon\u2019s relationship with this sector, laying the groundwork for Project Maven, which launched in 2017<\/span> during Trump\u2019s first term and used machine learning to help with military intelligence and drone strikes, which was a\u00a0hallmark of Obama\u2019s administration and escalated under\u00a0Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thousands of Google engineers, including senior positions, voiced their objection\u2009\u2014\u2009some quitting in protest\u2009\u2014\u2009when they found out, including through news reports in Gizmodo and The Intercept, that their employer was one of the companies contracted to work on Project\u00a0Maven.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We believe that Google should not be in the business of war,\u201d reads an from 2018<\/span>. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Therefore we ask that Project Maven be cancelled, and that Google draft, publicize and enforce a\u00a0clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare\u00a0technology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In response to the uproar, Google publicized it would not renew the project, and that it would avoid working on weapons projects that violate \u200b\u201c<\/span>internationally accepted norms.\u201d But such Pentagon contracts remain core to its business model. These companies don\u2019t only get public funding. From 2021<\/span> through 2023<\/span>, venture capital firms invested $100<\/span> billion into military tech\u00a0startups.<\/p>\n

The tech industry still gets far fewer military funds than the traditional weapons sector\u2009\u2014\u2009hardware and manufacturing remain capital-intensive processes no matter how clever the LLM\u2019s get\u2009\u2014\u2009but attracting Pentagon contracts is a\u00a0good way for tech companies to transition from the highly precarious startup phase to more established companies. In fact, there\u2019s a\u00a0name for it in military acquisition circles: crossing the \u200b\u201c<\/span>Valley of Death\u201d refers to the process of going from the development phase to the contract procurement phase. \u200b\u201c<\/span>To be in Silicon Valley and to be for not using it for the military is very difficult now, because all the venture capital money, the heads of the industry, that\u2019s what they\u2019re pushing,\u201d says William Hartung, senior research fellow for the Quincy Institute for Responsible\u00a0Statecraft.<\/p>\n

Within this incentive structure, plenty of companies that seemingly had nothing to do with war are making their way into the military industry. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Why this beauty startup just picked up a\u00a0major defense contract,\u201d reads one 2024<\/span> headline from Fast Company<\/em>. The article tells the story of a\u00a0startup called Debut Biotechnology, which started off focusing on biomanufacturing in the cosmetics industry, but then got a $2<\/span> million contract to plan a \u200b\u201c<\/span>bioindustrial manufacturing production\u201d facility for the Pentagon. An electric vehicle battery startup called Sion Power made a\u00a0similar transition, shifting \u200b\u201c<\/span>commercialize high-energy lithium-metal battery cells for\u00a0drones\u00a0<\/p>\n

and other defense-related products,\u201d according to a\u00a0CNBC article published in March\u00a02026<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Even the most limited ethical parameters are opposed. In early 2026<\/span>, the tech company Anthropic said it objected to use of its technology for autonomous weapons targeting or domestic surveillance, though it did not fundamentally object to contracting with the U.S. military. The Department of War responded by dropping a $200<\/span> million contract and trying to bar military contractors from doing business with\u00a0Anthropic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Protestors block the entrance of a Microsoft store in midtown Manhattan during a rally against the U.S. immigration policy on September 14, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Johannes EISELE \/ AFP)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201c<\/span>If you had any doubt about the guardrails being off, this is it,\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>The reason they were let go was essentially because they wanted to maintain some level of control over how the products were used, and I\u00a0would say it was a\u00a0pretty modest set of ethical\u00a0guidelines.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Guardrails or not, the Silicon Valley weapons industry is on the rise. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We\u2019re at a\u00a0pivotal moment, a\u00a0generational shift,\u201d says Ben Freeman, director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute. \u200b\u201c<\/span>You\u2019ve had the dominance of the so-called defense prime contractors\u2009\u2014\u2009Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman\u2009\u2014\u2009and they have far and away gotten a\u00a0lion\u2019s share of DOD contracts. Whenever anybody would seemingly oppose them, most of the time, they would either squeeze them out or they would buy them\u00a0out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>What we\u2019re seeing right now with the defense tech sector is a\u00a0fundamentally different thing, because these are companies that can\u2019t be bought out, because they\u2019re by and large run by extremely wealthy people\u2009\u2014\u2009or if not wealthy people, financially backed by very, very wealthy people. The Elon Musks and the Palmer Luckeys of the world, who are not willing to be bought out by the primes. So you\u2019re really seeing for the first time in a\u00a0generation firms coming into the defense sector that have the ability to compete directly with the primary weapons contractors and threaten their bottom\u00a0lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley now has a\u00a0small army of lobbyists jockeying for lucrative Pentagon contracts. There are more than 3<\/span>,500<\/span> lobbyists working on issues related to AI, which means one of every four lobbyists at the federal level is now working within this sector. But it might not be a\u00a0zero-sum competition. With Trump\u2019s budget for military and defense exceeding $1<\/span>.5<\/span> trillion, it may be the case that there is simply enough for\u00a0everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Unfortunately, what we\u2019re really seeing is that a\u00a0rising tide is lifting all defense contractors, whether they be the old guard firms or defense tech firms,\u201d Freeman says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Trump, over these last two years, just proposed these remarkably higher Pentagon budgets, and instead of forcing hard decisions at the Pentagon, everybody is getting a\u00a0slice of a\u00a0bigger Pentagon budget\u00a0pie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I spoke to one worker for Cisco Systems (Cisco), a\u00a0multinational communications and networking tech company that in 2000<\/span> was the most valuable corporation in the world with a\u00a0market cap above $579<\/span> billion. That individual had been laid off a\u00a0week prior; they were part of a\u00a0larger wave of layoffs, and they don\u2019t know if their activism played a\u00a0role. They explained that many workers going into Big Tech do not, at first, understand the full extent of these military\u00a0ties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I can\u2019t even count the number of times that I\u2019ve talked with someone and they say something like, \u200b\u201c<\/span>I didn\u2019t sign up to help kill people,\u201d says the Cisco worker, who asked to remain anonymous because they still organize with the internal anti-war worker group Bridge to Humanity. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s not just activists, but also from employees who aren\u2019t participating in any formal protest or\u00a0organizing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

When another Cisco worker, Shaad Hussain, started looking for tech jobs, he was clear that he did not want to work for the weapons industry. When he was offered a\u00a0job at Cisco, he was pleased to learn that the product he would work on, the company\u2019s Catalyst Center, was used for hospitals and universities. He tells me he thought he \u200b\u201c<\/span>would be working on something that benefits\u00a0society.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But after October 2023<\/span>, he discovered that the company provides both hardware and infrastructure to support Israel\u2019s military operations. In May, Drop Site News published a\u00a0report based on leaked documents which show that Cisco is aggressively pursuing new contracts with Israel\u2019s military and intelligence\u00a0establishment.<\/p>\n

While he has certainty that his company was working with Israel, he is less clear on whether the Catalyst Center he worked on was part of this collaboration. One of the challenges is that many of these products are also used for civilian purposes. And tech workers suspect that, in response to worker organizing and P.R. concerns, companies obfuscate military relationships, or play down the more lethal uses of their\u00a0technology.<\/p>\n

But for Hussain, it was enough to have confirmation that the company he was working for was enabling Israel\u2019s military operations, and he joined internal organizing efforts. Workers circulated an open letter, emailed the CEO with their concerns, and aired these concerns on company-wide calls. \u200b\u201c<\/span>In March 2025<\/span> they actually instituted a\u00a0policy saying that there could be no more discussion of the \u200b\u2018<\/span>Middle East conflict\u2019 in company-wide circles,\u201d Hussain says. An employee who challenged the free speech restriction, and was a\u00a0known advocate for the rights of Palestinians, was fired immediately after the policy was rolled out, a\u00a0development documented by Drop Site\u00a0News.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>At that point, we realized that this internal advocacy isn\u2019t going to do much,\u201d he recalls. \u200b\u201c<\/span>So we decided to go to Cisco Live, which is their main annual event that they host, where they invite employees, shareholders, and customers to see what\u2019s new. The CEO got on stage, and I\u00a0kind of just called him out in front of the audience.\u201d Hussain was fired immediately\u00a0after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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History shows that groups of marginalized workers, even where they don\u2019t have unions, can wield their power to win surprising victories, and oppose crimes against humanity. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) calls itself a \u200b\u201c<\/span>worker-based human rights organization,\u201d and in the 1990<\/span>s, it successfully opposed slavery among farmworkers, helping free more than 1<\/span>,200<\/span> workers who had been held against their will in the southeastern United States. When the organization learned that Taco Bell was a\u00a0key buyer of tomatoes grown in Immokalee, Florida\u2009\u2014\u2009where wages had stagnated since 1978<\/span>, at 40<\/span> cents for each 32<\/span>-pound bucket picked\u2009\u2014\u2009the coalition launched a\u00a0boycott, and in 2003<\/span>, outside the Taco Bell headquarters in Irvine, California, 50<\/span> Florida farmworkers held a\u00a010<\/span>-day hunger strike, resulting in three hospitalizations. In 2005<\/span>, CIW announced that it was suspending the boycott, after Taco Bell agreed to all of its demands, including a\u00a0pay increase of a\u00a0penny per pound, which nearly doubled farmworkers\u2019\u00a0wages.<\/p>\n

Corporate campaigns can cross national borders, as the union SINALTRAINAL showed when it called in the early 2000<\/span>s for a\u00a0boycott of Coca-Cola, which it deemed \u200b\u201c<\/span>Killer Coke,\u201d after union organizers were allegedly murdered by paramilitaries at bottling plants in Colombia. These examples, however, involve workers organizing corporate campaigns to advocate for their own rights, but what about going up against one\u2019s employer to be in solidarity with people in another part of the world? Gabi Schubiner worked at Google when No Tech for Apartheid was founded in 2021<\/span> and is now an organizer for the group. They told me that many tech workers \u200b\u201c<\/span>see ourselves in the lineage of the Polaroid Workers\u2019 Revolutionary\u00a0Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1970<\/span>, a\u00a0small group of Black workers at Polaroid found out their employer was selling equipment being used by the South African government to make race identification cards and passbooks used to enforce apartheid. They responded by protesting and organizing a\u00a0global boycott of their employer. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We presented Polaroid with three demands: that Polaroid get out of South Africa, that they announce in the U.S. and South Africa simultaneously their abhorrence for apartheid, and that they turn over their profits to the liberation movements,\u201d Caroline Hunter, who worked as a\u00a0chemist for the company, recalled to Democracy Now!<\/em> in 2013<\/span>. Workers started crashing speeches and lectures by company leaders, and they held press conferences calling for others to join in the\u00a0boycott.\u00a0<\/p>

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In response to public pressure, Polaroid announced in 1971<\/span> that it would require its distributors to pay good salaries to non-white workers and contribute to education funds for Black South Africans. The approach was in line with the practices of other companies, like General Motors, which claimed that as long as they engaged in fair labor standards in their own workplaces, it was okay to defy Black South Africans\u2019 call for a\u00a0global boycott. But the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PRWM) rejected what they derided as a\u00a0shallow PR effort. In 1977<\/span>, Polaroid finally cut its ties with apartheid South Africa, after a\u00a0report in the Boston Globe<\/em> revealed the company had continued to sell products to the apartheid government. Speaking at the Bard Graduate Center in 2023<\/span>, Hunter recalled, \u200b\u201c<\/span>We figured this is David and Goliath. The least we could do is throw a\u00a0rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There are signs tech worker organizing is \u200b\u2018<\/span>throwing a\u00a0rock.\u2019 In September 2025<\/span>, Microsoft terminated a\u00a0portion of its contract with the Israeli military Unit 8200<\/span>, which is focused on intelligence and surveillance, after an investigation by +972<\/span> Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian<\/em> revealed that Azure was being used to process \u200b\u201c<\/span>a sweeping and intrusive system that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West\u00a0Bank.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0statement, No Azure for Apartheid celebrated that \u200b\u201c<\/span>the first domino has fallen, but said, \u200b\u201c<\/span>this action is insufficient. Microsoft\u2019s decision today only cuts a\u00a0specific subset of its cloud and AI services to a\u00a0specific unit in the Israeli military.\u201d Services provided to other Israeli military units, \u200b\u201c<\/span>and the vast majority of Microsoft\u2019s tech sales to the Israeli military, continue to be untouched,\u201d the group\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Worker protests continued, and in May, Microsoft fired the general manager of Microsoft Israel, Alon Haimovich, and other senior staffers. Again, No Azure for Apartheid marked the win, proclaiming in a\u00a0statement that the firing \u200b\u201c<\/span>comes at the heels of relentless pressure from our campaign as well as the collective efforts of countless workers and partners from around the world.\u201d But the group warned the company \u200b\u201c<\/span>continues its pattern of conducting sham investigations while colluding with and continuing to supply cloud and AI arms to the Israeli military and government to power occupation, genocide, and apartheid in Palestine. We refuse to allow Microsoft to scapegoat one or a\u00a0handful of individuals to wipe its hands clean of its complicity in\u00a0genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nasr says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>I do think this is an important and significant direct result of the organizing work we are doing.\u201d But, he cautions, \u200b\u201c<\/span>this was approved and known about at the highest levels of\u00a0Microsoft.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement gather in front of the Broken Chair monument in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 8, 2025, to protest the opening of the AI for Good Global Summit. (Photo by Beyza Binnur Donmez \/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Following the firings, Microsoft workers and former workers are mobilizing more, not less. On June 2<\/span>\u00a0and 3<\/span>, No Azure for Apartheid staged multiple protests targeting the company\u2019s annual \u200b\u201c<\/span>Build\u201d conference for the third year in a\u00a0row. In addition to holding rallies, they helped commission a\u00a0plane that hauled a\u00a0banner reading, \u200b\u201c<\/span>MSFT powers genocide.\u201d And protesters took to kayaks in the San Francisco Bay by the Golden Gate Bridge, which was near the conference, chanting, \u200b\u201c<\/span>Microsoft you will learn, in our millions we\u2019ll\u00a0return!\u201d<\/p>\n

When I\u00a0asked Microsoft about the concerns and allegations workers shared with me for this article, a\u00a0company spokesperson said, \u200b\u201c<\/span>We provide commercial technology to customers globally and expect its use to align with applicable laws and our policies. We respect employees\u2019 rights to express their views and provide channels to raise concerns, while requiring workplace activity to follow company policies and not disrupt business\u00a0operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, Abdo Mohamed, a\u00a0former Microsoft worker who was fired after organizing the same vigil as Nasr, tells me, \u200b\u201c<\/span>Microsoft and its executives are still regurgitating the same lies and PR statements in a\u00a0desperate attempt to whitewash how they have enabled and abetted war crimes and crimes against\u00a0humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u200b\u201c<\/span>We, the workers, whose labor is being exploited, whose voices have been silenced and ignored, whose livelihoods have been threatened with retaliatory firings, doxxing, and brutal arrests refuse to be cogs in the genocidal machine powered by Microsoft\u00a0technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it may seem that these workers are up against overwhelming forces, Noam Perry, the strategic research coordinator at AFSC\u2019s Action Center for Corporate Accountability, says that such organizing can have a\u00a0surprising impact in the long term. \u200b\u201c<\/span>There are deep currents that take a\u00a0long time to materialize, and we might never understand what contributed to what, but I\u00a0see the arms industry being on the defensive in many aspects,\u201d he says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s not that they\u2019re suffering financially, but they have a\u00a0PR crisis, and I\u00a0think Google and Amazon and Microsoft and Cisco and others understand that they have a\u00a0PR crisis that they need to solve in one way or\u00a0another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry draws lessons from his own work organizing in support for the Palestinian-led call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Sometimes in BDS work we don\u2019t have an impact directly on the target that we are campaigning against but we see an impact on the industry. Other companies will look at that and say, \u200b\u2018<\/span>Oh, we don\u2019t even want to get into that controversy,\u00a0right?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Tech workers are engaged in discussions and debates about how to effectively organize the sector, where those who risk and lose their jobs face severe retaliation and little institutional political support. Democrats, for example, are not lining up to demand that the 50<\/span> workers fired from Google in 2024<\/span> be reinstated. Meanwhile, tech CEOs are accumulating tremendous capital and power. Elon Musk\u2019s wealth has surpassed that of John D. Rockefeller, when adjusted for inflation. Seven out of the 10<\/span> richest people in the world hail from the tech industry. These CEOs are, in turn, increasingly allying with the Trump administration, a\u00a0bloc symbolized at a\u00a02025<\/span> ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, where current and former tech executives, dressed in combat gear, swore an oath to defend the United\u00a0States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Our approach and our thinking about it from the beginning has been to recognize the limits of our power,\u201d Nasr says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We\u2019re working toward a\u00a0majoritarian union. That is definitely the north star.\u201d But in the meantime, he says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>there\u2019s just so much urgency to act. And if we wait and our hands are tied behind our backs until we get there, we know that we\u2019re just not going to be able to meet the\u00a0moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Organizers with No Tech for Apartheid are grappling with big questions about what kind of organizing model can be most effective. In 2021<\/span>, Amazon and Google entered into a $1<\/span>.2<\/span> billion contract to provide cloud technology for the Israeli government and military, under the banner of Project Nimbus. A\u00a0group of anonymous Amazon and Google workers released a\u00a0statement condemning the deal, warning that \u200b\u201c<\/span>this technology allows for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians, and facilitates expansion of Israel\u2019s illegal settlements on Palestinian land.\u201d Even the company\u2019s own outside consultants warned about the ethical implications of providing AI to the Israeli government, saying \u200b\u201c<\/span>Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations, including Israeli activity in the West\u00a0Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Confirming the concerns, an investigation published in 2024<\/span> by +972<\/span> and Local Call found that Amazon Web Services \u200b\u201c<\/span>provides Israel\u2019s Military Intelligence Directorate with a\u00a0server farm which is used to store masses of intelligence information that assists the army in the\u00a0war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The vast amount of information stored in Amazon\u2019s cloud, the military sources testified, even helped on rare occasions to confirm aerial assassination strikes in Gaza,\u201d according to the investigation, \u200b\u201c<\/span>strikes that would have also killed and harmed Palestinian\u00a0civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the escalated Israeli assault on Gaza that began in October 2023<\/span>, worker protests against Project Nimbus grew more urgent. Workers staged sit-ins and protests at Google offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif. The company responded by firing 50<\/span> Google workers, yet they continue to\u00a0organize.<\/p>\n

When I\u00a0asked Google about the firing, and workers\u2019 concerns and allegations, the company told me, \u200b\u201c<\/span>We have been very clear that the Nimbus contract is for workloads running on our commercial cloud by Israeli government ministries, who agree to comply with the Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy that govern it.\u201d But the company has given this response verbatim to so many reporters that AFSC quotes the line on an informational webpage. \u200b\u201c<\/span>This seems to be a\u00a0misleading statement as it was later revealed that the Nimbus contract is not subject to Google\u2019s regular terms of service but instead to terms that have been dictated by the Israeli government,\u201d AFSC\u00a0writes.<\/p>\n

Schubiner from No Tech for Apartheid told me, \u200b\u201c<\/span>We\u2019ve reoriented around base building as a\u00a0strategy. I\u00a0think it\u2019s the only way right now to generate the amount of power that we need to win our admittedly quite large demands. All of the other forms of power that we have are relatively easy for the companies to resist, because the companies are monopolies, because they\u2019re global, because they just have so much more\u00a0power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Our assessment is that while it\u2019s possible to make some wins through community pressure, to make structural change and target the systems and the really large cloud contracts that underlie so much of the relationship between militaries and big tech, we need to build a\u00a0large base of workers that are capable of resisting internally and likely withholding labor at some\u00a0level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the reach of this sector is so broad that, ultimately, it\u2019s not just tech workers who are part of its machinery. Andrew Gesler is a\u00a0registered nurse in the anesthesia recovery unit at Maine Medical Center, and he is concerned about his employer\u2019s contract with Palantir, a\u00a0tech giant that specializes in mass surveillance, data collection, and using machine learning to assess that data. Palantir openly and proudly works with the U.S. military, with the Israeli military, and with ICE, and uses AI to identify people to kill and detain. In April 2026<\/span>, the company published a\u00a0manifesto on X\u00a0that proclaims, \u200b\u201c<\/span>The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on\u00a0software.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April 2025<\/span>, the company started a\u00a0recruitment campaign at elite U.S. colleges in which it put up posters that said, \u200b\u201c<\/span>A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West.\u201d As Alberto Toscano reported for In These Times<\/em>, the ads stated that Palantir doesn\u2019t create tech products to merely \u200b\u201c<\/span>ensure America\u2019s future,\u201d but to \u200b\u201c<\/span>dominate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gesler and his coworkers, whose field is premised on helping people, were concerned to discover Palantir has a\u00a0presence in their hospital. \u200b\u201c<\/span>This is an evil company that I\u00a0want nothing to do with,\u201d says Gesler, who is a\u00a0member of the Maine State Nurses Association\/\u200bNational Nurses Organizing\u00a0Committee.<\/p>\n

This strategy, of treating Palantir as a\u00a0morally rotten company no one should do business with, has notched up some wins for a\u00a0global campaign called \u200b\u201c<\/span>Purge Palantir.\u201d London\u2019s mayor blocked a \u00a350<\/span> million ($66<\/span> million) contract, and New York City\u2019s public hospital system said it wouldn\u2019t renew a\u00a0contract, just to name a\u00a0few. Cardano, a\u00a0Dutch investment firm, said in May it had \u200b\u201c<\/span>adopted a\u00a0strict sustainable investment policy grounded in international standards\u201d and removed Palantir shares from its portfolio. Advocates say that Palantir is so expert at snuffing out internal dissent that pressure must come from the\u00a0outside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maine Medical claims that the company is helping patients fight denials of their health insurance, but Gesler is both skeptical, and doesn\u2019t care what the tool is being used for. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We don\u2019t want any part of this dangerous corporate\u2009\u2014\u2009honestly, I\u2019ll call it fascist\u2009\u2014\u2009machine. Being a\u00a0nurse, being a\u00a0humanitarian, being a\u00a0person who is here to help people, I\u00a0don\u2019t want anything to do with this\u00a0company.\u201d<\/p>\n

For tech workers trying to organize within their jobsites, part of the challenge can be getting their coworkers to identify not with founders, but with the working class, from nurses like Gesler, to contractors and janitors in their own\u00a0industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They are up against CEOs who increasingly talk about their own workforce as a\u00a0hostile force, and use their power to oppose policies that help the working class. Elon Musk displayed this approach when he took over Twitter (where workers had been trying to organize a\u00a0union) and promptly laid off 80<\/span>% of the staff in 2023<\/span>, then went on to take the same hatchet to public programs for the poor as the unelected yet all-powerful leader of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in 2025<\/span>. The powerful venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who is a\u00a0regular at Mar-a-Lago, derided his own workers as \u200b\u201c<\/span>professional activists\u201d in a\u00a0January 2023<\/span> interview with The New York Times<\/em>, clearly irked by a\u00a0boom of organizing in the tech sector that has taken off since 2017<\/span>. Peter Thiel, a\u00a0key purveyor of a\u00a0philosophy that Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor describe as \u200b\u201c<\/span>end times fascism,\u201d is openly hostile to worker consciousness, deriding the dangers when you \u200b\u201c<\/span>proletarianize the young people,\u201d while directly funding efforts to defeat California\u2019s billionaire wealth\u00a0tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The tech worker that stereotypically people think about is that white collar worker who is getting kombucha on tap, who\u2019s getting paid six figures,\u201d says Abdo Mohamed, a\u00a0former Microsoft worker who was fired for organizing the same vigil as Nasr, and has continued organizing with No Azure for Apartheid. \u200b\u201c<\/span>But there are actually a\u00a0lot of workers who are vendors and contractors who are not able to afford the right health care or are not able to get their sick leave, and they\u2019re working for the same companies. There are people who are cafeteria workers who are fighting for their union recognition at these tech companies, and there are people who are in Third World countries that are being paid less than $1<\/span> a\u00a0day to kind of label the AI that is\u00a0happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>One of the key aspects, at least in our campaign, is that we are trying to emphasize that we are all workers, despite the different material conditions, and we need to try and build a\u00a0trust across the different formations of workers. Because at the end of the day, the power that gets wielded by each formation has a\u00a0different angle of\u00a0pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

And being a\u00a0worker in this industry, he underscores, involves grappling with a\u00a0troubling reality. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Our labor is being exploited to enable this genocide, and you draw a\u00a0line at\u00a0that.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article is a\u00a0joint publication of <\/em>In These Times and <\/em>Workday Magazine, a\u00a0nonprofit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of\u00a0workers.<\/em><\/p>

Read more Socialists Are Tearing Through the Democratic Party Establishment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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