Microsoft fired two employees on Wednesday, when they broke into the office of its Vice Chair and Company President Brad Smith, as part of opposition to the alleged link of the technology company for Israel earlier this week.
After a group of seven people ended on Tuesday after a group broke down at executive offices at Microsoft’s global headquarters in Redmond, Washington. A advocacy group organized by Microsoft Employees, no Azure for Aparthid, is said in an Instagram Post The current and former activists of Microsoft, Google and Oracle were part of the group that captured Smith’s office.
The protesters, who were arrested by the police on Tuesday, were demanding that Microsoft cut relations with Israel after a guardian Informed Earlier this month, a unit of the Israeli army is using Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform to survey Palestinians at West Bank.
A Microsoft spokesman said in a statement to CBS News, “Two employees were abolished today after serious violations of the company’s policies and our code of conduct.” “First violated the trade conduct policy, participated in illegal break-in in executive offices, and other demonstrations on the campus, and was arrested by officers on our campus on two occasions. The second was involved in brake-in in executive offices and was later arrested.”
In an instagram PostAny kind of agoor for apartheid identified employees as Anna Hotel and Ricky Family.
During a press conference On Wednesday, Smith said that Microsoft launched a formal investigation in the report of Israeli’s use. “We are committed to ensuring that our human rights theory and the contractual terms of our service remain in the Middle East,” he said.
The protest against Microsoft has been going on for months on the use of Israeli army company technology. Police last week Arrested 18 people after similar protests at the company’s Redmond Headquarters.
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About two years ago, Hamas -led attack killed 1,200 people in Southern Israel and saw 251 others as hostages in Gaza.
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