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May 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: @Google and @Amazon investors don’t want to profit off of Israeli apartheid!

This is historic: for the first time ever, Israeli apartheid is being explicitly named in shareholder proposals at any company.

#NoTechForApartheid

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theintercept.com/2022/05/18/goo…
As @theintercept reports, shareholders at Google and Amazon are raising concerns about the ethics and financial liability of the companies' $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli military and government.

Their concerns echo those of workers at both companies.
Shareholders and workers worry that, through the Project Nimbus contract — signed while the Israeli military bombed Gaza last May — Google and Amazon help Israel surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians under occupation.
As Ed Feigen, JVP member and lead filer of Google's shareholder resolution, states, investors "believe profiting from violence is plainly immoral, and... see pursuing such contracts as a liability for investors — especially given the history of Google employees protesting" them.
Google and Amazon workers don’t want their labor to power Israeli apartheid, and investors don’t want to profit off of it.

The labor of workers and the capital of investors make companies run — so Google and Amazon should listen and end their Israeli contracts.

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