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Late Tuesday, several Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google employees were reportedly arrested and placed on administrative leave following staging 10-hour sit-ins at offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, to protest the $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel.
The pro-Palestinian employees, who are affiliated with a group called No Tech For Apartheid, posted several videos and live streams of the protests, which included the moment they were issued final warnings and arrested by local police for trespassing, reported New York Post.
The protesters demanded the company’s withdrawal from the $1.2 billion ...