Things turned violent when Microsoft chose to profit off of enabling the Palestinian Genocide with their Azure infrastructure, not when protestors of this lost their cool.
Several large tech companies, including Palantir, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, have contracts with the Israeli military and provide support for its operations in Gaza; a few are starting to reconsider accepting Israeli money. Facing pressure from shareholders and investors, in September 2025 Microsoft blocked Israel’s access to the Azure cloud platform, a surveillance program that Israel has used to collect data on Palestinians. Israel will instead rely more heavily on Google and Amazon. In 2021, the tech giants signed a cloud data storage contract with Israel called “Project Nimbus” for $1.2 billion, a deal that involved a workaround to violate both their own terms of service and legal guidelines, leading some Google employees to protest and to resign in response. Palantir has denied that it was involved in developing the AI targeting systems “Lavender” and “Gospel” that Israel has used to intentionally strike Palestinians at home with their families. In October 2024, Norway’s largest asset manager divested its $24 million in Palantir shares due to concerns about Palantir’s partnership with Israel. But other than Microsoft, tech corporations have maintained their lucrative contracts with Israel.
