Thread by @NoTechApartheid

Joint statement from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft workers organizing with the No Tech For Apartheid and No Azure For Apartheid campaigns:

This weekend’s reporting from +972 Magazine () breaks new ground in our understanding of Big Tech’s role in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and confirms what their own workers have long protested:972mag.com/cloud-israeli-…

Not unlike IBM’s assistance to Nazi Germany in surveilling, calculating, assigning death to Jewish people during the Holocaust, Big Tech corporations today are directly assisting the Israeli military in its genocidal campaign.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are the technological backbone of this genocide.

Despite Google’s repeated insistence that its cloud services for Israel are "not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services," investigation after investigation continues to prove otherwise.

Multiple reports over the last few months have detailed and confirmed the crucial role that Amazon and Google play in Israel’s genocide, and +972’s investigation reveals even more horrifying details of the genocide profiteers’ ties to Israel:

Interviews with sources in Israel’s "Defense" Ministry, the Israeli arms industry, & the three cloud companies found that Amazon, Google, and Microsoft "have been providing data storage and AI services to army units that deal with classified information."

Amazon Web Services enables the Israeli military to search for and store information about almost every single Palestinian in Gaza––giving Israel ongoing access to unprecedented amounts of information to power its genocide.

In fact, Israeli military intelligence used data stored on Amazon Web Services ‘to provide "supplementary information’ ahead of airstrikes against suspected military operatives, some of which killed many civilians."

The ease with which Amazon, Google, and Microsoft allow Israeli military intelligence access to data storage services to store and retrieve vast troves of intelligence data has been compared to the ease with which consumers around the world can “order from Amazon.”

Microsoft Azure provides “tools…[which] includes capabilities for transcription, translation, sentiment recognition, language, summary, document and image analysis, and more.”

Israel's mass assassination factory, which has deployed dystopian, mass killing systems like Lavender and Where's Daddy, has operationalized Amazon’s cloud to carry out its mission, and Big Tech corporations are lending their AI capabilities to the Israeli genocidal campaign.

By allowing the Israeli military to store vast amounts of data it has harvested from Palestinians in their cloud servers, and by providing the military the capacity to "place an order" for this data with just one click,

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have provided the tools necessary for Israel to kill more Palestinians than it would have ever been possible via Israel’s private army servers.

Via these corporations, Israel has expanded capacity for access to public data and storage of private intelligence data. This capacity, along with AI tools manipulating the data, have bolstered Israel's military capacity for its 10 month-long mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza.

The partnerships between Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Israel have only deepened since last October. According to sources, "pressure on the Israeli army since October led to a dramatic increase in the purchase of services from Google Cloud, Amazon’s AWS, and Microsoft Azure."

That’s why together, as workers across Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, we not only condemn our employers’ moral depravity and genocide profiteering,

but we join the global movement of workers organizing to end the greed-driven killing machine that our employers sustain, protect, and grow by providing and profiting from the technology and arms that power it.

We refuse to allow our labor to be used to power Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Amazon and Google must end their Project Nimbus cloud contract with Israel, and all tech corporations, including Microsoft, must cease doing business with Israel’s Occupation Forces and apartheid state.

We won’t stop organizing until our companies stop powering this genocide and until Palestine is free. We call on all tech workers of conscience to join our fight.