Activists and tech workers disrupt keynote speeches at Amazon summit

Palestine solidarity activists and tech workers disrupted keynote speeches at Wednesday's Amazon Web Services Summit to protest the alliance between Big Tech and Israel’s military, known as Project Nimbus.

Referred to as the "deadly alliance" between Big Tech and Israel’s military, Project Nimbus is a $1.2bn contract with Amazon and Google to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and government, facilitating surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians and the expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

This past spring, Amazon and Google renewed the Project Nimbus contract, months after Israel’s bombing campaign on Gaza started.

“Amazon and Google’s collaboration with Israeli apartheid is part of a larger pattern of Big Tech fueling state violence across the globe,” the No Tech for Apartheid campaign stated on its website.

Wednesday’s disruption follows a wave of protests and actions led by Amazon and Google tech workers, STEM students and allies since the war on Gaza broke out on 7 October.