op-ed: No to apartheid technology.. the protests continue..

"No to Apartheid Technology" is the title of a popular campaign by activists and employees of Google and Amazon who advocate for Palestinian human rights against the close technological cooperation between Israel and these two companies to serve and sustain the occupation and the apartheid project, especially against the so-called "Nimbus" project.

And this “Nimbus” is an agreement concluded in May of the year 2021 (during the war on Gaza) between the occupation army and Google and Amazon to implement a project to provide highly complex cloud technology and artificial intelligence to the Israeli entity at a value of one billion and 200 million dollars.

Under which artificial intelligence services are harnessed to enable Israel to increase the suffering of the Palestinians, seize their lands, displace and kill them more effectively and harshly. how ? The project simply consists of two parts: a high-speed data center and cloud technology services in order to facilitate surveillance, illegal data collection, control, facial recognition, and prosecution of Palestinian activists, and to make the Israeli-led apartheid policy against the Palestinians more efficient. This means that Palestine will become a large prison, and the movement of every Palestinian who lives in it will be monitored continuously. Nimbus also provides the Israeli Land Authority, which is directly responsible for settlement and land confiscation, with support services for Palestinian land data to facilitate the process of displacement, land appropriation and settlement construction.

The most dangerous thing is that Israel obtained, according to Nimbus, the right to establish three huge data centers within it that are fully subject to Israeli laws, without any international control over the information from the technological producing companies, and without the possibility of using this data in any international institution that can hold Israel accountable for its crimes.

Protests by activists and institutions advocating for Palestinian rights against the Nimbus project, since the signing of the contract in 2021, escalate every year at every global meeting of Google, Amazon, or even other technology companies. In fact, the heroine of the protests is the Jewish American and former Google employee, Ariel Koren, who exposed the project and behind her hundreds of employees from both companies who opposed this agreement as against human and moral right, and with criminalizing Google and Amazon profits based on war crimes and crimes against humanity and empowering a racist army ( The Israeli army) of technology that helps it to kill.
"Corinne" was fought by Google and had to choose between moving to Brazil or resigning, so she chose the second. She has co-organized the Workers Against Nimbus and No Apartheid Technology campaigns.

The Nimbus project has returned to the fore again this month with the call to protest in front of the Cloud Technology Conference to be held on August 29 in San Francisco, USA.

I call on all activists and youth to join the “No Tech For Apartheid” campaign on its website so that the echo of the protests becomes more influential and more severe on the Israeli entity and on technology companies that feed on Palestinian blood. It is not impossible for Google and Amazon to give up their military project. Google has already abandoned two military projects with China and the US army after huge protests... The important thing is not to neglect the protest policy and underestimate its importance as a method that can make a difference.

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