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Amazon has fired a 29-year-old Palestinian technologist who protested against the e-commerce giant’s ties to the Israeli government. Ahmed Shahrour was among a radical of 7 existent and erstwhile tech workers who occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith’s bureau successful August this year.
According to a Bloomberg report, Ahmed Shahrour worked arsenic a bundle technologist successful Amazon’s Whole Foods concern successful Seattle. He was suspended past period aft helium posted a bid of messages to firm Slack chat rooms criticizing Amazon’s connections to Israel. Shahrour subsequently protested and handed retired fliers astatine Amazon’s Seattle office campus.
Why Amazon fired Ahmed Shahrour
An probe by Amazon recovered Ahmed Shahrour of violating the company's standards of conduct, written connection argumentation and acceptable usage policy.
The institution alleged that helium “misused institution resources, including by posting galore non-work-related messages pertaining to the Israel-Palestine conflict.”Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said successful an emailed statement: “We don’t tolerate discrimination, harassment, oregon threatening behaviour oregon connection of immoderate benignant successful our workplace, and erstwhile immoderate behaviour of that quality is reported, we analyse it and instrumentality due enactment based connected our findings”.
CNBC quotes an Amazon quality resources worker who writes successful a message: “In the adjacent 24hrs you volition person an email with elaborate accusation astir your termination, including accusation astir your benefits and last pay. We admit the contributions you’ve made during your clip with Amazon and privation you the champion successful your aboriginal endeavors.”
What the fired Amazon worker says
In a enactment to his colleagues past month, Shahrour said “Amazon is not a neutral observer.
We are progressive participants.” Shahrour told CNBC that his firing is “a blatant enactment of retaliation designed to soundlessness dissent from Palestinian voices wrong Amazon and shield Amazon’s collaboration successful the genocide from interior scrutiny.”In a property release, An worker radical associated with Shahrour claimed that helium was fired aft a five-week suspension “for protesting Amazon’s $1.2 cardinal declaration with the Israeli authorities and military, known arsenic Project Nimbus, which helium states constitutes collaboration successful the ongoing genocide successful Gaza.”
