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Demand Amazon & Google Execs stop doing business with Israeli apartheid

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Dear Amazon and Google Executives Andy Jassy, Adam Selipsky, Sundar Pichai, and Thomas Kurian,

I’m writing to you in solidarity with the hundreds of Amazon and Google workers bravely calling for Google and Amazon to pull out of the Project Nimbus contract and stop doing business with the Israeli apartheid government and military. Like the many workers of conscience that have come forward, I also believe that technology should bring our communities closer together and work for the common good—not power apartheid and violence.

As over 1000 of your own workers rightly pointed out this past October in their op-ed at The Guardian, Google and Amazon leadership have made commitments to upholding human rights and behaving ethically—and we expect you to live up to those commitments. In its statement of AI principles, Google states that it values democracy, and says that companies "can make money without doing evil." Similarly, Amazon asserts in its Leadership Principles that the company must "make better, do better, and be better" for the world at large.

This year, Human Rights Watch and leading Israeli human rights organization B’tselem both released reports echoing what Palestinians have said for decades: the Israeli military and government is maintaining an apartheid regime in which they rule over the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians, but deny Palestinians basic human rights.

By providing cloud technology to the Israeli military and government, Google and Amazon are enabling apartheid and the oppression of the Palestinian people. For example, Project Nimbus will likely expand the data capacity of the Israeli Land Authority (ILA), a government agency that uses discriminatory policies to expand segregated Jewish settlements while trapping Palestinians in densely populated areas and limiting the growth of their communities. Technology should be used to bring communities together, not enforce segregation and displacement.

Furthermore, growing numbers of the public, myself included, agree with your workers in opposing the Israeli government's violations of Palestinian  human rights. In the wake of the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza that resulted in the death of 250 people (including over 60 children), a Data for Progress poll conducted this year showed increasing numbers of people in the U.S. oppose their government's complicity in human rights violations such as illegal settlement expansion onto Palestinian land and the Israeli military’s destruction of residential homes. There is overwhelming agreement among workers and ordinary people that Google and Amazon need to develop technology that benefits the common good, instead of enabling human suffering.

Just as people of conscience demanded institutions cut ties with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, the time is now to rise up in support of Palestinian human rights. We hope that you will take this opportunity to be on the right side of history as your own workers and communities across the globe come together to build a better world for all. End the Project Nimbus contract and re-establish your companies’ commitments to human rights.

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