Amazon suspends Palestinian engineer after criticism over Israel ties, he says, ‘I am left with no choice but to resist’
E-commerce giant Amazon suspended a software engineer who spoke against the company’s cooperation with the Israeli government.
According to a report by CNBC, Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer in Seattle, was said to be suspended on Monday morning after publishing messages about Slack criticizing the company’s work with Israel.
In the report, the message of the Amazon Human Resources Representative, “Amazon’s more than one internal company loose channel you made a ship can violate more than one policy,” he said. The e-commerce informed the major event in a message.
In an interview with CNBC, Shahrour, who has been working in Amazon for the last three years, said that the company has canceled its access to official E -mail and vehicles and has removed its loose tasks as part of suspending. He claimed that Amazon’s duties did not specify which policies violated.
What did Shahrour write to Amazon?
Shahrour wrote messages on several internal loose channels and sent a letter to Amazon executives, including CEO Andy Jassy on Monday, and emphasized his concerns.
Amazon asked Project Nimbus, a $ 1.2 billion cloud computing agreement initiated by Amazon and Google in 2021, to provide artificial intelligence vehicles, data centers and other infrastructure to the Israeli government.
Orum Every day I write code to Whole Foods, and I remember my brothers in Gaza are hungry by Israel’s human -made blockade, ”Shahrour’s letter.
He also claims that Amazon has taken steps to “silence” employees who support Palestine and criticize the war in Gaza.
The letter was previously reported by independent journalist Kali Hays. The Livemint could not confirm the report independently.
Details of the Nimbus contract
Amazon did not comment on the NIMBUS contract beyond telling customers that he had supplyed technology any no matter where ”. Google had previously stated that the Israeli government has widely provided existing current cloud computing services.
What did Amazon say?
Without referring to Shahrour’s letter directly, Amazon spokesman Brad Glasser wrote to CNBC with an e -mail: uz We do not threaten any kind of discrimination, harassment or threatening of any kind of workplace, or when any behavior of this behavior is reported, we investigate and take appropriate measures based on our findings ”.
Employees in Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other companies talk to the Israeli army against business relations. Last month, Microsoft rejected two employees in a protest at the center of the company. In April 2024, Google dismissed 28 employees after a series of protests for working conditions and participation in Project Nimbus. In response to the increase in protests, technology companies have increased security at some conferences in recent months.
