Yesterday, Microsoft President Brad Smith's office was stormed by seven No Azure for Apartheid activists. As a result, the office was inaccessible for several hours and the campus was temporarily closed for security reasons. Two of the activists are employees who are still with the company and today they have been fired.
In a statement released by No Azure for Apartheid, one of the fired employees said;
"We are here because Microsoft continues to provide Israel with the tools it needs to commit genocide while instilling doubt in its own employees about this reality. We are a small number of thousands of employees who refuse to allow their workforce to be used for the mass murder of Palestinians."
Earlier this year, Microsoft denied using its technology in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Then new reports published by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call showed that Azure cloud storage was used to spy on all Palestinian conversations by Israel's Unit 8200 since 2022.
Azure browser reportedly stored 200 million hours of Palestinian phone conversations, taking up 11,500 TB of storage space. This led Microsoft to hire an outside firm to once again investigate whether their infrastructure was being used for spying because it violated Azure's terms and conditions of use.