Israel’s killing of two young Palestinian boys in Gaza for supposedly crossing the Israeli military’s ever-shifting yellow line last week is “horrific” and must be investigated, the UN has said. “It’s hard to see how two boys, eight and 10, can be considered a threat. And there needs to be an investigation and accountability into what happened,” said Stéphane Dujarric…
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I keep asking myself: How can the world believe Israel’s claim that a “ceasefire” is still in place? The occupation has convinced the world that the bloodshed in Gaza has stopped, while in reality families are still being erased from the civil registry in absolute silence. The world is quiet — perhaps simply because something called a “ceasefire” was announced? What the world does not…
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Ahead of its annual shareholders meeting on December 5, Microsoft is coming under mounting pressure to reconsider its relationship with the Israeli military, which has used the tech giant’s products to carry out the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. In an open letter to the company released on Tuesday, December 2, an international coalition of legal aid groups said…
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Around 20,000 people attended tech giant Microsoft’s Ignite conference in San Francisco last month. Current and former tech workers and Microsoft employees with the No Azure for Apartheid movement were also there to disrupt business as usual, and to continue their ongoing protests of Microsoft’s contracts with Israel’s government and its complicity in the war crimes Israel has committed against Palestinians. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Patrick Fort, a Microsoft senior engineer who resigned in protest at the Ignite conference, and Hossam Nasr, a No Azure for Apartheid organizer who was fired by Microsoft.
Additional links/info:
No Azure for Apartheid Instagram and Linktree
Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “Microsoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt”
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Post-Production: David Hebden
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Maximillian Alvarez:
Around 20,000 people attended Tech Giant Microsoft’s Ignite Conference in San Francisco last month. But current and former tech workers and Microsoft employees with the no Azure for Apartheid movement were also there to disrupt business as usual and to continue their ongoing protests of Microsoft’s contracts with Israel’s government and its complicity in the war crimes that Israel has committed against Palestinians. Here’s a video that was posted from the No Azure for Apartheid Instagram account, which shows the moment that one brave tech worker called out Microsoft’s CEO of commercial business, Judson Altoff, in front of the entire conference. Take a look.
Patrick Fort:
Hey, Judson, the point of the children of God is on our hands. Judson, I worked at Microsoft for seven years and I resigned today Microsoft Disappointing Israel genocide, free
Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.” This comes as a coalition…
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