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Posted on 06/15/2026 6:58:31 AM PDT by Morgana
Hundreds of Stanford graduates staged a dramatic walkout during a commencement ceremony on Sunday as Google CEO Sundar Pichai took to the stage.
The massive protest turned what should have been a celebration of academic achievement into the latest flashpoint in the ongoing battle over Big Tech's ties to Israel.
As Pichai rose to deliver the keynote address at one of the nation's most prestigious universities, groups of students stood up and streamed out of the ceremony in protest.
Some waved Palestinian flags, blew whistles and unfurled banners condemning Google's relationship with the Israeli government.
The demonstration marked the latest in a string of pro-Palestinian protests that have disrupted commencement events at Stanford in recent years amid continuing tensions surrounding the war in Gaza.
According to reports from the ceremony, roughly 200 students participated in the walkout as Pichai began speaking.
Many of the protesters were angered by Google's involvement in Project Nimbus, a controversial $1.2 billion cloud-computing contract awarded jointly to Google and Amazon by the Israeli government in 2021.
The deal has become a lightning rod for activists who argue technology companies should not provide services that could support Israeli government operations.
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I always thought “tolerance” was one of their many virtues
All the good little highly educated Jew-haters……
I would have walked out because some Indian invader is running a formerly American company
Well, bye!
I’m sure some of these clowns expect to land at an NGO but I bet a number of them apply to Google and will be genuinely surprised when they are rejected.
We have a few (supposedly adult) trend copy cat posters like that, here, too, unfortunately.
Dump their diplomas.
My nephew was probably one that walked out. He is graduating with a doctorate in Physics. Smart as hell, but dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to understanding how our government screws us every single day. Indoctrination has worked perfectly on him.
LOL. Poop Woke Google thought they were the good guys. Don’t be Evil. That was your self-aggrandizing, smarmy motto, wasn’t it Google? Now Frankenstein’s Monster is coming after you too.
But not educated enough to know that JOOZE possess the most adept software and code breaking skills on the planet!
I seriously doubt any of those esteemed scholarly graduates could find the region of Palestine on a map. They think they are being edgy and cool. Shouting “free palestine” at people who have no control over the issue is retarded. What do they expect the faculty to do?
The Stupid Angry Group walked out
Go to Belfast...(See above thread)
rejected? from the video, most look like minorities, so I’m sure they’re still sought by Google recruiters over whites and asians...
Stanford graduations are held at Stanford football stadium
It’s a huge stadium and it’s packed
Nobody knows or cares about a few people walking out
They all should have stayed and instead held up iPads spelling out
GOOGLE SUCKS.
DUCK DUCK GO ROCKS.
And keep them up for the whole speech. That’s way, every time he looks into the crowd, he doesn’t see a fawning audience.
That’s how you deal with jackwagons.
WIKI
According to a Google spokesperson, the contract is for workloads related to “finance, healthcare, transportation, and education” and does not deal with highly sensitive or classified information. However, the Israeli military and defense apparatus have been stakeholders from the inception of the contract. Moreover, the tech companies are contractually forbidden from denying service to any particular entities of the Israeli government, including its military.
Although Project Nimbus’ specific mission has not yet been revealed, Google Cloud Platform’s AI tools could give the Israeli military and security services the capability for facial detection, automated image categorization, object tracking & sentiment analysis – tools that have previously been used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for border surveillance.
Circa 2022, the contract drew rebuke and condemnation from the companies’ shareholders as well as their employees, over concerns that the project would lead to further abuses of Palestinians’ human rights in the context of the ongoing occupation and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Specifically, they criticized how they believed the technology could increase surveillance of Palestinians, expand data collection practices, and assist in the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus
sad...I thought STEM students were the least likely to be liberal...
Maybe GOOGLE does not drop another dime on Stanford. Maybe GOOGLE builds its own college near Stanford and goes head to head with the marxists.
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