As We Predicted, Anti-Israel Report From 'Time' Causes Uprising Within Google Offices

Last week, we questioned the intentions of an article from Time Magazine supposedly revealing that Google has a contract with the Israel Defense Ministry to provide exclusive Cloud services. 

However, the information in the report was not exactly novel. 

The Israeli government announced a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with Google and Amazon in 2020. To its extent, the agreement provides the Israeli Ministry of Defense with a secure destination to store and process data and access AI services.

We asked Time why it considered the information, most of which was already public, worth an "exclusive" report. The outlet did not respond. 

Consequently, we were left to surmise that Time, an outlet that has long laid bare an obvious anti-Israel bias, published the headline to name and shame an agreement that benefits a ministry the outlet deems genocidal. Time published the article to incite the wrath of Google employees, to pressure their bosses to disassociate from any partnership with Israel. 

And that's exactly what happened.

On Tuesday, pro-Palestinian Google employees staged a 10-hour protest at the New York and California offices over the cloud contract with Israel. They demanded that Google withdraw from its contract with the ministry.

The protests included a "complete takeover" of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale by workers wearing traditional Arab headscarves, according to the New York Post.

Protesters wore T-shirts that read "Google against Genocide" and plastered a poster outside of Kurian’s office that read "Drop Nimbus."

The protesters, several of whom are affiliated with a group called "No Tech For Apartheid," posted videos of their demonstrations on social media. They live-streamed their arrest:

A total of nine protesters were arrested. 

"These employees were put on administrative leave and their access to our systems was cut," a spokesperson for Google said. "After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety."

"Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and we will investigate and take action," concluded the statement.

A spokesperson for the NYPD adds that the Tuesday protest "involved approximately 50 participants." The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety confirmed the protest in California "consisted of around 80 participants." 

The pro-Palestinian employees reportedly claim that the technology Google provides to the Israel Defense Ministry is weaponized against Palestinians in Gaza. 

Time stoked that fear last week by stating there are allegations that the Ministry of Defense is using an AI-powered system to select targets for air strikes on Gaza – suggesting Google enables said task. 

Time – one of the first notable outlets to print the infamous war zone lie (via Hamas sources) that Israel caused the deaths of more than 500 Palestinians after bombing a hospital on Oct. 17, 2023 – believes the Israeli Military is evil. 

Much of the legacy media does.

As we explained, corporate journalists often view matters through the lens of the oppressed and the oppressors. Or, in the case of the Israeli-Hamas conflict, the colonizers and the colonized.

Thus, Time hoped to stir an uprising within the Google offices over the tech company's agreement with the ministry. The anti-Israel employees acquiesced.