#no-azure-for-apartheid

#no-azure-for-apartheid

Two other Microsoft employees were fired last night for their involvement with a protest that saw members of the group gain access to a company building and live stream themselves inside the office of Microsoft president Brad Smith. Jaradat had previously sent a mass email around Microsoft saying she was "fed up" with the company's treatment of her as a Palestinian worker, bypassing the company's restrictions on language around Palestine and Gaza internally in order to do so.

While the petition failed to have an impact, a louder protest outside Microsoft's headquarters kickstarted a wave of public activism. Two of the organizers of No Azure for Apartheid - Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr - were fired for disrupting colleagues with "bullhorns and speakers." They've been recruiting Microsoft employees, other tech workers, and community members ever since. The group has since made headlines for interrupting Microsoft executives during a 50th anniversary celebration and at the company's Build developer conference earlier this year.