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- The ballot box does not govern corporate deployments and the workplace is where employees can influence company policy when internal channels fail. - “You’re

by belter 1y ago

- The ballot box does not govern corporate deployments and the workplace is where employees can influence company policy when internal channels fail. - “You’re singling out Israel” is a whataboutism. Many tech workers have protested deals with ICE in the U.S., censored search in China, and weapons programs. - The International Court of Justice has ordered provisional measures over a plausible risks of genocide and told Israel to halt operations placing duties on business partners "BBC witnesses Israeli settlers' attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank" - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jle0eo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jle0eo

nelox 1y ago
Look, employees absolutely have the right to raise concerns, but occupying the office isn’t really about discussion, it’s about forcing the company’s hand. Microsoft already has ways for staff to voice their views. If every group with a political objection shut down operations, no global business could run. On the “singling out Israel” point, that’s not whataboutism, it’s a real double standard. Yes, there have been protests over ICE or China, but those were smaller and shorter-lived. The fact that Israel alone sparks this kind of sustained disruption says something about selective outrage. That’s worth calling out. And about the ICJ, it hasn’t ruled that genocide is happening. It’s issued provisional measures, which it does pretty routinely before a case is decided. That’s very different from a verdict, and it doesn’t legally bind companies to cut ties. Suggesting otherwise is misleading. Finally, pointing to individual settler violence doesn’t change the basic issue. Israel prosecutes those cases, and they don’t justify employees trying to hijack corporate policy. If people want to change foreign policy, the place to do that is through politics and public advocacy, not by staging sit-ins at work.
- newspaper1 1y ago
  Israel has killed an unprecedented number of children and it may have used Microsoft’s technology to do it. The protests are warranted.
- belter 1y ago
  > Finally, pointing to individual settler violence doesn’t change the basic issue. Israel prosecutes those cases Stealing land is the current government policy: "With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry" - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-city.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/middleeast/israel-h...

by belter 1y ago

nelox 1y ago

Look, employees absolutely have the right to raise concerns, but occupying the office isn’t really about discussion, it’s about forcing the company’s hand. Microsoft already has ways for staff to voice their views. If every group with a political objection shut down operations, no global business could run. On the “singling out Israel” point, that’s not whataboutism, it’s a real double standard. Yes, there have been protests over ICE or China, but those were smaller and shorter-lived. The fact that Israel alone sparks this kind of sustained disruption says something about selective outrage. That’s worth calling out. And about the ICJ, it hasn’t ruled that genocide is happening. It’s issued provisional measures, which it does pretty routinely before a case is decided. That’s very different from a verdict, and it doesn’t legally bind companies to cut ties. Suggesting otherwise is misleading. Finally, pointing to individual settler violence doesn’t change the basic issue. Israel prosecutes those cases, and they don’t justify employees trying to hijack corporate policy. If people want to change foreign policy, the place to do that is through politics and public advocacy, not by staging sit-ins at work.

newspaper1 1y ago
Israel has killed an unprecedented number of children and it may have used Microsoft’s technology to do it. The protests are warranted.
belter 1y ago
> Finally, pointing to individual settler violence doesn’t change the basic issue. Israel prosecutes those cases Stealing land is the current government policy: "With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry" - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-city.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/middleeast/israel-h...