Google has fired 28 employees who protested its $1.2 billion contract with Israel. Project Nimbus provides computing services to the Israeli military. This comes after peaceful sit-ins this week by Google workers at their New York City and Sunnyvale, California, offices, which resulted in nine arrests. Kate Sim, a child safety policy adviser and one of the terminated workers, said, “Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are. McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power.” Two of the Google workers who were fired Mohammad Khatami and Ray Westrick appeared on Democracy Now! on Wednesday hours before they were dismissed.
