Jewish Google employee relocated over spreading anti-Israeli comments

A Jewish Google employee who spearheaded an effort to pressure the Big Tech giant to abandon a $1.4 billion deal with the Israeli government said that her anti-Israel activism led to Google illegally retaliating against her and relocating her job to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 

San Francisco-based Ariel Koren, who co-authored an open letter urging Google to pull out of Project Nimbus —  which would facilitate Israel’s building of its local cloud storage server centers — said that Google was punishing her for speaking out against their deal with the Zionist regime.
 

One month after writing the letter, which was published in The Guardian, Koren said that Google informed her that her position in the education division had been relocated to South America and that she had 17 days to agree to the transfer or lose her job.

“It is clear that the relocation order was an act of retaliation,” she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). “Our petition calling on Google and Amazon to end Project Nimbus has over 1,000 worker signatures, but I was just one of two Google employees to speak out publicly.”
 

Koren said that the petition has not caused Google to rethink its agreement with Israel.

“It’s clear that Google’s contract with the Israeli military and government will directly harm Palestinians using the technology that Google employees are expected to create,” she told JTA. “That is why workers are calling on Google to cancel the contract.”