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May 15, 2024

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Google Conference Over Israel Contract
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Protests over Israel's war on Gaza are continuing across the country. In
Mountain View, California, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters
blocked the entrances to a Google conference for software developers.
Ariel Koren is a former Google worker.

Ariel Koren: "We are sending a message that Google is the company that
is providing the cloud infrastructure for Israel's violent crimes
against humanity, and so we will hold the company accountable for this
behavior. … There is no reason, there is no need for Google to profit
off of genocide. And so, our demands, they're not radical, they're not
difficult. It's really simple: Drop Project Nimbus, and drop business
with the government and the military of Israel that is guilty of
genocide."

Here in New York, students at CUNY, the City University of New York,
briefly took over a library at the Graduate Center Tuesday night and
renamed it "Al Aqsa University Library" to honor Gaza's oldest public
university, which was destroyed by Israel.


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