250 Jewish Google employees call for company to support Palestine
California (QNN)- 250 Jewish Google employees called on the company to increase its support of Palestinians amid Israeli deadly bombing campaign in the Gaza strip and massive repression against Palestinians throughout Palestine, according to The Verge.
In an internal letter, Google workers ask CEO Sundar Pichai to put out a statement condemning the Israeli attacks, including “direct recognition of the harm done to Palestinians by Israeli military and gang violence.” The letter currently has 250 signatures.
“We object to the conflation of Israel with the Jewish people, affirm that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism”, the letter added.
It also called on the leadership of Google to heed requests of Palestinian Googlers and center their voices going forward and protect freedom of speech, rejecting any definition of antisemitism that holds that criticism of Israel or Zionism is antisemitic.
The letter, led by Jewish Diaspora in Tech, a group of Jewish anti-nationalists within Google, comes amid a global solidarity campaign with Palestine.
Members of the group say they were inspired to write the letter after Jewglers failed to put out a statement condemning the violence against Palestinians.
Jewish Diaspora in Tech was formed because of the fact that we were quite literally not allowed to express our viewpoints in the ERG,” says a product marketing manager in the group, according to The Verge.
