Microsoft fires two employees who protested company’s ties with Israel
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/microsoft-fires-engineers-who-protested-during-anniversary-celebration.html
The Associated Press news agency is reporting that Microsoft sacked Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal after they disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event in protest against its ties with the Israeli military.
In a letter to Aboussad, the company accused her of misconduct “designed to gain notoriety and cause maximum disruption to this highly anticipated event”.
It also told Agrawal, who had already given two weeks’ notice to leave the company, to make her resignation effective immediately.
Videos from the event on Friday showed Aboussad interrupting a speech by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman as he announced new product features.
“You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military,” Aboussad shouts. “Fifty-thousand people have died and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region.”
A silver lining to Trump's idiocy, oh go on request all that money back!
Trump says ‘maybe not’ to lifting tariffs on Israel
The Israeli leader pledged to eliminate the trade deficit with the US and do so quickly, but Trump said that may not be enough for him to lift the 17 percent tariffs he imposed on the country last week.
“Maybe not, don’t forget – we help keep Israel a lot,” he said. “We give Israel $4bn a year, that’s a lot.”
Actually it's a lot more, pls somebody tell Trump how much Israel has been free loading on the US.
Since the start of Israel's war with Hamas on October 7, 2023, the United States has enacted legislation providing at least $12.5 billion in direct military aid to Israel, which includes $3.8 billion from a bill in March 2024 (in line with the current MOU) and $8.7 billion from a supplemental appropriations act in April 2024. Other analysts—Linda J. Bilmes, William D. Hartung, and Stephen Semler, from Brown University—have reported [PDF] that Israel received $17.9 billion in U.S. military aid during this period, a figure that additionally accounts for the cost to the U.S. Defense Department of replenishing the stock of weapons provided to Israel.
