Today, reporting from the Washington Post confirmed: Since October 7, Google executives feverishly pushed to get Google’s state of the art artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military. This includes Google’s Vertex and Gemini AI. Critically, part of this push came from an urgent effort to beat out Amazon, Google’s main competitor in cloud, and the other beneficiary of Project Nimbus.

This reporting officially debunks Google’s canned response to workers and press who have, since 2021, raised concerns about the corporation’s business with Israel: Project Nimbus is directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed over 186,000 Palestinians in Gaza (as estimated by the Lancet in 2024, and likely a massively under-reported number); and products like Vertex and Gemini are not used just for tasks like email or payroll. According to the Israeli government itself, Google’s cloud has “directly aided combat applications,” potentially enabling the likes of “Habsora,” an AI technology that the Israeli military developed to provide thousands of human and infrastructure targets to bomb throughout its genocide against Gaza.

A few questions remain: What role did Google AI products play in Israel’s genocide against Gaza? What role will they continue to play in the Israeli apartheid state, which despite a ceasefire agreement, continues to surveil, track, police, punish, and kill Palestinians? How are these AI tools connected to Lavender, the AI targeting system that powered Israel’s bomb targeting in Gaza? How do these AI tools fit into the IOF’s revitalized West Bank assault, as Israel forces storm cities like Jenin leaving Palestinian bodies in their wake?

Since learning about Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli military and government, thousands of our coworkers have spoken out to executives about their concerns.

As Google workers, we demand answers and action from our executives. We refuse to have our labor be used to power apartheid and genocide. We demand an end to this depraved contract that has powered the destruction and decimation of Palestinian life in Gaza over the past 15 months.

Google workers didn’t sign up to work for a military contractor. We didn’t sign up to work for genocide profiteers. As our world marches towards fascism — with the full backing of the tech industry and its billionaires — we won’t stop organizing at this company until workers have a real say over how the technology we build is used in the world. Our fight is far from over.