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Microsoft workers rename HQ ‘Martyred Palestinian Children’s Plaza’ during anti-Israel protest
NY Post ^ | 08/20/2025 | Thomas Barrabi

Posted on 08/20/2025 10:14:39 AM PDT by DFG

Dozens of anti-Israel Microsoft employees, many wearing face masks and keffiyes, swarmed the company’s headquarters in Washington state to protest the Big Tech giant’s ties to Israel’s military.

The protesters set up tents in a “liberated zone” on the Redmond campus, renaming it the “Martyred Palestinian Children’s Plaza” — and toted signs that urged co-workers to “Join the worker intifada: no labor for genocide.” Other placards said “stop starving Gaza.”

A group calling itself “No Azure For Apartheid” organized Tuesday’s sit-in after The Guardian reported that an Israeli military intelligence agency was using Microsoft’s Azure software to amass recordings of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

“Once again, the enablers of genocide and apartheid choose to criminalize those that oppose the bombing of Palestinians, rather than the war criminals ethnically cleansing and starving our people in Palestine,” the group — an offshoot of No Tech For Apartheid — wrote on X.

The group also published a lengthy manifesto calling for a “worker intifada” and stating that “it would not be cogs in the Israeli genocidal machine.”

“The group was asked to leave, and they left,” a Microsoft spokesperson told The Post on Wednesday.

About 50 current and former Microsoft workers took part in the sit-in, company officials said.

Microsoft had said it was not aware “of the surveillance of civilians or collection of their cellphone conversations using Microsoft’s services” and would conduct a formal review of the allegations.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 08/20/2025 10:14:39 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Dangerous lunatics


2 posted on 08/20/2025 10:16:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: DFG

Hamas supporters are domestic terrorists.

Round them up and “process” them.


3 posted on 08/20/2025 10:19:12 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: DFG

How can these idiots overlook what Hamas did during its invasion of Israel? I blame the MSM for promoting their warped view of the conflict and place the dead on their doorstep.


4 posted on 08/20/2025 10:19:20 AM PDT by econjack
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To: DFG

If they are employees of MSFT, MSFT should identify them and fire them immediately, not because of the employees’ views, but because they represent an enormous sabotage threat to MSFT’s business.


5 posted on 08/20/2025 10:19:38 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: DFG

I think Microsoft is going to have some job openings.


6 posted on 08/20/2025 10:20:26 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DFG
The old intifada is now a worldwide movement of public relations and messaging.

Those ineffective IDF folks trying a "genocide" need some lessons, as the latest Hamas declaration reads -- when one actually does the simple math -- amount to only about 1 percent of ALL Gazans since October 2023. Or a lot of Hamas fighters, though claiming they are being "genocided" isn't a very good marketing stance.

7 posted on 08/20/2025 10:25:13 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: DFG; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ...
Dayglored note: I don't normally ping the Windows Ping List for non-technical items, but this news from Microsoft Central is kinda disturbing. Those of us using Windows may wish to be aware of what goes on in Redmond. Apologies to any of you who are annoyed by this post.

“Worker Intifada” at Microsoft ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

8 posted on 08/20/2025 10:25:29 AM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: DFG

Microsoft is very dependent on their Research & Development operations in Israel. Several thousand employees there, at least.


9 posted on 08/20/2025 10:34:58 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: DFG

so, they admit they are jihadi warriors who died in the cause of their holy war ?


10 posted on 08/20/2025 10:35:21 AM PDT by cuz1961
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Windows sucks.

And their search engine is useless.


11 posted on 08/20/2025 10:35:50 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: DFG

Did they bring out their swastikas and microwave ovens to show their appreciation for the slaughter of Jews?


12 posted on 08/20/2025 10:35:50 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: DFG

Evil arse-wholes!
Their boss should fire them immediately for smearing the corporate reputation and misusing comment property.
Where does such Satanic garbage come from, anyway?


13 posted on 08/20/2025 10:41:36 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: DFG

Hopefully there will be some vacancies at MS this afternoon.


14 posted on 08/20/2025 10:48:06 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: DFG

Didn’t a lot of these Tech companies prohibit their employees from engaging in politics on the job??


15 posted on 08/20/2025 10:50:15 AM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: DFG

They can be sacked, as they say in Olde England.

No more displays of Stupid at Redmond.


16 posted on 08/20/2025 10:51:02 AM PDT by Gasshog (x, marks my spot)
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To: BenLurkin

MCSFT brought these radical lunatics into their company and now they are stuck with them. This is just the beginning.


17 posted on 08/20/2025 10:51:10 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: faithhopecharity

“””Evil arse-wholes!
Their boss should fire them immediately for smearing the corporate reputation and misusing comment property.”””

Their boss is probably one of them.


18 posted on 08/20/2025 10:55:59 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: econjack

They don’t care cause they hate Jews.


19 posted on 08/20/2025 11:00:58 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: DFG

As they went back to work, they renamed it the appropriate “Hamas would slit our throats if they knew how lgbtqa.... we are Plaza”


20 posted on 08/20/2025 11:13:02 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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