Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas.

Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas.

The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late Thursday, several hours after a lunchtime event they organized at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington.

Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid” that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. But they contended that Thursday’s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need.

“We have so many community members within Microsoft who have lost family, lost friends or loved ones,” said Abdo Mohamed, a researcher and data scientist. “But Microsoft really failed to have the space for us where we can come together and share our grief and honor the memories of people who can no longer speak for themselves.”

Microsoft said Friday it has “ended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy” but declined to provide details.

Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war. The firings stemmed from internal turmoil and sit-in protests at Google offices centered on “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 for Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.

  • @DaveybornEnglish
    2•3 hours ago

    Average response when I ask for help with linux on forums. Also pot meet kettle on the attitude dude.

      • @DaveybornEnglish
        1•2 hours ago

        Check the username dude wrong person, besides you started the whole thing by accusing them of goalpost moving.

        • SemperverusEnglish
          0•2 hours ago

          I accused the community as a whole of goalpost moving.

          But you’re right, i did get the username wrong.

          With that being said, I’m not here as community support. Im not offering you or anyone support. I am calling out the inaccuracies and the slander.

            • SemperverusEnglish
              0•2 hours ago

              Read the first post again and tell me how what i just said is a backpedal.

              • @DaveybornEnglish
                0•2 hours ago

                You went from accusing him of goalpost moving to claiming youre accusing the whole community

                • SemperverusEnglish
                  1•2 hours ago

                  I listed a bunch of things that have been said by the community in the past, and pointed out that they made a statement that fell into that larger bucket.

                  So, i would be willing to concede that I lumped them in with the greater whole. But: I did not start with the aggressive namecalling.

                  • @DaveybornEnglish
                    1•2 hours ago

                    Should probably make that clearer next time you copy paste that then, very easy to misinterpret that as a attack. And yeah he was the first to do the name calling I’m not touching that.

    • trevorEnglish
      1•2 hours ago

      No it literally doesn’t work it’s not compatible. Also don’t be a bitch…

      That is a really interesting way of asking for help. Next time I need help, I’ll try being obstinate and predetermining that the thing I need help with just doesn’t work while calling them a bitch and see how that goes.

      I usually try actually asking for help and refrain from calling the person I’m talking to a bitch.

      • @DaveybornEnglish
        1•2 hours ago

        Can none of yall read usernames? Not the same guy, you even went through the effort to quote his message and didn’t pick up on it.

        • trevorEnglish
          1•2 hours ago

          I’m on mobile, but I stand by what I said. Responding to someone that was responding to someone else that was being obstinate with average response when I ask for help is missing the actual point.

          The OP that I quoted wanted to be combative, got a combative response, and then someone else you made it about “asking for help”, which is their your fault if they you think that this thread had anything to do with it.

          • @DaveybornEnglish
            0•2 hours ago

            I didn’t make it about anything, I was joking. And i assume he was nasty and combative cause he misinterpreted the big goalpost comment as an attack on them.

          • @DaveybornEnglish
            1•1 hour ago

            Responding again since your just gonna edit rather than repond. I didn’t think it was asking for help, I was joking.

        • SemperverusEnglish
          1•1 hour ago

          A lot of people grew up in a time where the desire for anonymity on the internet was praised and respected, reading usernames unless you had a specific reason to do so was considered strange.

          I know I at the very least have to force myself to look at them if it’s something that needs doing, as I am conditioned specifically to ignore them.

          • @DaveybornEnglish
            1•1 hour ago

            Not sure what a desire for anonymity on the internet and making sure you’re responding to the right person have to do with each other. Been on the internet for 30+ years now.