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A Google worker leaves the company after accusing the tech giant of retaliating against workers who spoke out in favor of Palestine.
Ariel Koren, who is Jewish, wrote a letter to the science giant on Tuesday in which she said she left the company because of its “retaliation” against her and her colleagues for protesting against the company’s Nimbus project.
The allocation is a $1. 2 billion contract for a cloud computing formula built through Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government and military with synthetic intelligence and device learning tools.
“Google is aggressively pursuing military contracts and stripping the voices of its workers with a tendency of silence and retaliation against me and many others,” Koren said in an article on Medium.
She alleged that the company’s contract with the government on the Nimbus assignment explicitly causes Google to shut down its business even on the occasion of an employee protest.
“The contract explicitly leaves the company powerless to impede its services, whether Israel uses the generation to aid in human rights violations,” Koren wrote in the blog post.
“I’m leaving Google this week because of retaliation and hostility against speaking staff. Google changed my role without delay after I objected to its billion-dollar surveillance/synthetic intelligence contracts with Israel,” he tweeted.
Koren, who says he has worked with the technology for more than seven years, accused the company of “systematically” silencing Palestinian, Jewish, Arab and Muslim voices and is implicated in its “complicity in Palestinian human rights violations. “
“Our Palestinian colleagues are being silenced by the company. Workers who help Palestinian rights get HR warnings, harassment, even pay cuts and negative comments about functionality reviews,” he said.
Koren said the company had silenced her and her colleagues to “protect their interests with the Israeli military and government. “
“Our Palestinian colleagues deserve more than this; our Palestinian users deserve more than that. The general public deserves more than this,” he wrote in the letter.
“More and more employees are talking. Workers are fed up with Google’s competitive pursuit of military contracts and the scheme of illegal retaliation. We are fighting back and supporting others,” Koren wrote in a tweet.
Google did not respond to The Independent’s request for comment.