Ariel Koren, director of marketing for educational products at the American company "Google", criticized the company after announcing her resignation due to what she described as repressive and discriminatory policies against Palestinian employees and supporters of the Palestinian cause, especially after "Google" concluded a contract with the Israeli government to provide it with surveillance and intelligence programs. Sophisticated synthetic.

In a tweet posted by Corinne on her Twitter account on Tuesday, the Jewish anti-occupation employee said, "I will leave Google this week due to revenge and hostility against employees who express their opinion."

I am leaving @Google this week due to retaliation & hostility against workers who speak out.

Google moved my role overseas immediately after I opposed its $1B AI/surveillance contracts with Israel.

And this is far from an isolated instance.https://t.co/V4y05kOYQv pic.twitter.com/eRMrzTPYfb

— Ariel Koren (@ariel_koko) August 30, 2022

Koren denounced the huge deal that Google made with the Tel Aviv government in 2021 worth one billion dollars within the "Nimbus" project, which provides artificial intelligence and large-scale surveillance services to the Israeli army against the Palestinians.

The former official said that Google implements "silencing" practices for Palestinian colleagues or supporters of Palestinian rights, as they constantly receive warnings from the company's human resources department, cuts in their salaries, and negative evaluations of their job performance.

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Corinne quoted messages from 15 employees working for Google and its partners who chose to talk about what they are exposed to (without disclosing their identities) of “corporate bias within Google, which helps the company justify and protect the Nimbus project contract,” and Corinne described these practices as a “crisis of conscience” she suffers from. Google.

Among the messages broadcast in a recorded clip posted on YouTube, a Palestinian employee at Google said, "It has become impossible to express any opinion of disapproval of the war against the Palestinians without inviting us to a meeting of human resources where we receive threats of revenge."

Another Palestinian employee expressed her dissatisfaction with the "Nimbus" project, and said, "Working at Google was my dream until I learned about the Nimbus project. I feel that I earn a daily living from the persecution of my family back home."

Another Palestinian referred to Google's punitive policies against supporters of Palestinian rights, saying, "I only felt marginalized when I started seeing warnings against my co-workers, just for their sympathy with the Palestinians."

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Social networking sites were celebrated with critical interactions of Google and its repressive policies against employees opposing the Israeli occupation and the "Nimbus" project, and the interactors praised Corinne's courage in submitting her resignation in protest against Google's practices.

"I am disturbed by the number of complaints and notifications I receive about the silencing of the struggle for justice in and around Palestine on social media," wrote Italian human rights defender Francesca Albanese.

The American activist and former parliamentary candidate, Rana Abdel Hamid, said in a tweet, "More than a year ago, I saw for myself the way Ariel suffered from revenge just for standing up for Palestinian human rights. This revenge and hostility is unacceptable."

For over a year I have seen first hand the way Ariel experienced retaliation as a tech worker simply for standing for Palestinian Human Rights.

This retaliation and hostility is unacceptable but faces worker organizers across the country.

Proud of my best friend ily @ariel_koko!

https://t.co/VFXXzHuWID

— Rana Abdelhamid Rana Abdelhamid (@RanaForNY) August 30, 2022

Activist Salma Al-Nims said in a tweet, "Shame on Google. The West pays lip service to human rights except when it comes to Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims."

It is noteworthy that hundreds of employees of Google and Amazon asked in a letter signed in October 2021 by about 400 employees of the two companies, their administrations, to stop providing the Israeli army and government with modern technology that is used to harm the Palestinians.