{"id":16433,"date":"2024-11-03T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/03\/microsoft-workers-fired-over-gaza-vigil-say-company-crumbled-under-pressure\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:38:59","slug":"microsoft-workers-fired-over-gaza-vigil-say-company-crumbled-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/03\/microsoft-workers-fired-over-gaza-vigil-say-company-crumbled-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft workers fired over Gaza vigil say company \u2018crumbled under pressure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr organized event outside headquarters to reject company doing business in Israel<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> employees who were fired last week after organizing a vigil for Palestinians killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a> say the company retaliated against them for their pro-Palestinian activism.<\/p>\n<p>The two, Abdo Mohamed, a researcher and data scientist, and Hossam Nasr, a software engineer, organized the event outside Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on 24 October. They were fired later that evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/02\/microsoft-workers-fired-gaza-vigil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b3b9abf458b32280187663a4e1d237c3467116a2\/0_0_7952_4774\/master\/7952.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5b195d5b0fc91080a66386d005d159c1\" title=\"Microsoft workers fired over Gaza vigil say company \u2018crumbled under pressure\u2019\" \/>Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr organized event outside headquarters to reject company doing business in Israel<br \/>\nTwo Microsoft employees who were fired last week after organizing a vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza say the company retaliated against them for their pro-Palestinian activism.<br \/>\nThe two, Abdo Mohamed, a researcher and data scientist, and Hossam Nasr, a software engineer, organized the event outside Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on 24 October. They were fired later that evening. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdo Mohamed and Hossam Nasr organized event outside headquarters to reject company doing business in Israel Two Microsoft employees who were fired last week after organizing a vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza say the company retaliated against them for their pro-Palestinian activism. The two, Abdo Mohamed, a researcher and data scientist, and Hossam Nasr, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/03\/microsoft-workers-fired-over-gaza-vigil-say-company-crumbled-under-pressure\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft workers fired over Gaza vigil say company \u2018crumbled under pressure\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}