Google terminates 28 employees following a sit-in protest regarding an Israeli cloud contract.

Google fired 28 employees after sit-in protests at its offices, following the suspension and arrest of 9 individuals in New York and California. The protests were against Google's involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government cloud contract. Some protestors occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian until law enforcement removed them. Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, stated in a memo that such behavior is unacceptable, warning of further action if necessary. The "No Tech for Apartheid" group, organizing against Project Nimbus, criticized the firings as retaliation, emphasizing employees' rights to peaceful protest. They noted a lack of executive response to their concerns over the past three years.