SAN FRANCISCO — A California-based Google designer was among hundreds of people shocked to find their names on a public list being circulated this week of “Anti-Israel employees” who made “potentially terror supporting” posts on social media.About a week after Hamas attacked Israel, the Google employee
Employees at companies like Google and Amazon have pushed bosses to take a public political stance, but some say that, internally, calls for a cease fire have been unfairly censored. A handful of people — including a law student, an airline pilot and an adult-content influencer — in the United States and around the world, or have faced discipline or backlash, for their online posts criticizing Israel.
In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was focused on making sure all of the company’s roughly 2,000 employees there were safe, the executive said in an email to employees. An employee involved in organizing the petition who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their job said it has been signed by more than 500 employees. It calls Israel’s attack on Gaza “genocide” and says that by “supplying artificial intelligence and other technology to Israel, Google is complicit in the mass surveillance that enables the occupation and subjugation of Palestinians.
“You chose to support terrorists,” tweeted David Marcus, a former top Meta executive who now runs a payments start-up. “As such I’ll never attend/sponsor/speak at any of your events again.”