Hotmailer@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 months agoNo Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israelyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareSon_of_dad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoSeems misleading, as I highly doubt they were charged with “protesting contract with Israel”. Is that a misdemeanor? Also love that Google workers suddenly grew a conscience
minus-squareGeneralVincent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoIt’s a trespassing charge from what I could find. Although there are laws against boycotting Israel https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/21/us-supreme-court-arkansas-anti-boycott-israel-law
Seems misleading, as I highly doubt they were charged with “protesting contract with Israel”. Is that a misdemeanor?
Also love that Google workers suddenly grew a conscience
It’s a trespassing charge from what I could find. Although there are laws against boycotting Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/21/us-supreme-court-arkansas-anti-boycott-israel-law
Thats so wild