No Azure for Apartheid protests Microsoft's tech ties to Israeli Ministry of Defence at Build conference
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Summary
A campaign group called No Azure for Apartheid disrupted Microsoft's Build conference to protest the company's provision of technology to the Israeli Ministry of Defence. The group accuses Microsoft of complicity in Israel's actions in Palestine and calls the company's investigation into the matter a 'sham' and an attempt to 'whitewash its genocide-profiteering'. The protests occurred from water, sky, and ground during the conference.
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It included protests from the water, sky, and ground to call out the company's continued complicity in Israel's genocide.
According to the group, the statement is the company's latest failed attempt to 'whitewash its genocide-profiteering'
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