Dozens of Pro-Palestinian activists arrested at the US Senate
Dozens of activists staged a protest inside the US Hart Senate Building, calling for the United States to stop funding Israel’s war on Gaza, on Tuesday
The protest came as the Senate prepared to vote on ‘historic’ resolutions of disapproval of a $20bn weapons deal with Israel put forward by Senator Bernie Sanders
The Anadolu news agency reported that 50 people were arrested at the protest
Microsoft employee fired for pro-Palestine vigil
In late October, two employees of the tech giant were sacked after holding a demonstration for Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza. The employees were part of a group called No Azure for Apartheid, which demands Microsoft end its cloud computing contracts with Israel.
One of the employees, Abdo Mohamed, told Al Jazeera that he believes their dismissal is a backlash against their activism and that the company has cultivated an anti-Arab culture
“Microsoft will claim policy violation, but we know that the real policy violation is happening because Microsoft is complicit in that genocide,” said Mohamed. “They are violating their own human rights statement.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/microsoft-workers-fired-gaza-vigil
