Statement from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign:

“Yesterday, mere hours after Israel escalated its violations of the ceasefire and unilaterally broke the agreement in full force, bombing Gaza and murdering over 400 Palestinians, Google formally announced its acquisition of Wiz. Wiz is an Israeli cloud security startup founded by former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s infamous clandestine intelligence unit.

This decision by Google executives represents brazen disregard for the concerns that workers across the globe have raised about Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion joint cloud computing contract with Israel. Since 2021, workers have been organizing against Google’s complicity in aiding and abetting the Israeli apartheid state and the genocide in Gaza.

Google’s acquisition of Wiz is yet another example of the company’s ongoing antitrust violations. While mired in antitrust lawsuits, Google spent a whopping $33 billion to acquire Wiz — the most expensive acquisition for the corporation to date. Emboldened by its coziness with the Trump administration, Google is playing with fire and trusting that its performative overtures toward new leadership in the country will protect it.

But changing political winds will not deter us. As workers, we remain steadfast in our commitment to force the company to end Project Nimbus and end its business with Israel. This acquisition marks a continuation of Google’s brazen support for the Israeli apartheid system. In addition to Project Nimbus, Google recently finalized a real estate deal to rent 60,000 sq. meters of office space in Tel Aviv. Instead of heeding their own workers and divesting from Israel’s genocidal project, Google is leaning in with its investment in the colonial, racist, apartheid project of the so-called Israeli state. Google workers do not want their labor to power the decimation oft the Palestinian people. We vehemently oppose this investment, continue to reject Project Nimbus, & Google’s powering of the genocide in Gaza.

Google executives responsible for this decision — namely Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian — are shameless genocide profiteers. This acquisition is a flagrant ploy by Google to beat out competitors like Amazon Web Services in the race to dominate the cloud computing marketplace. Driven by the desire to control the market and the thirst for profit, Kurian and Google executives are all too eager to establish Google as the backbone of the U.S.-Israeli war machine. They are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes, even if it means ravaging the planet or bloodying their hands.

Google’s executives and managers may join ICE and the DHS in trying to silence pro-Palestinian voices, but we are not deterred. We look to Mahmoud Kalil, Leqaa Kordia, Ranjani Srinivasan, and others in the student movement to reaffirm our commitment to speaking truth to power. Workers, students, community — we are stronger together.

Workers will keep building power together to control and redirect how our labor is used before Google technology becomes even more catastrophic to ourselves, our communities, and our world.”