Fired employees call for boycott of Microsoft over its role in Gaza genocide
"…Two former Microsoft employees slammed the company for complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza and systematic apartheid in the West Bank, urging global boycotts against the tech giant.
Hossam Nasr, a software engineer, and Abdo Mohamed, a data scientist, who were both fired in 2024 for organizing a vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza, called for severing Microsoft's partnerships that support military operations.
According to Nasr, Microsoft provides cloud services, AI capabilities, translation, and data storage to the Israeli military, and "they use Microsoft translation services to translate the data they collect on Palestinians from Arabic to Hebrew".
"Then they feed that into a pipeline of AI targeting systems that help determine where to bomb in Gaza and help Israel classify innocent Palestinians as terrorists", he said, citing reports showing a 200-fold increase in Israel's use of Microsoft's AI tools between October 2023 and March 2024.
"Their usage of cloud storage increased to 13.6 petabytes", he added.
"Microsoft Azure also hosts the target bank for the Israeli military", he said, noting: "It hosts the civil registry of the Palestinian population"…"
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https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/19/746433/fired-microsoft-employees-accuse-company-of-enabling-israel-s-attacks-on-gaza
