Microsoft; Accomplice in Gaza Genocide

DIDPress: Last week, Microsoft admitted providing large amount of AI and cloud storage services to Israel during its genocide of Gaza.

Microsoft’s close collaboration with Tel Aviv — including employing over 1,000 Israelis — strongly undermines the challenges the tech giant’s claim that its services have not caused harm to Palestinians.

Although Microsoft acknowledged supplying these AI and cloud services during the Gaza genocide, it claimed its investigations found no evidence that the Israeli military (IDF) used these services to target or harm Palestinians.

This is not a serious claim and no one should take it seriously.
Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes would not have been possible without IBM’s technology for tracking, capturing, and killing Jews, Romani people, and disabled individuals, Israel’s apartheid and genocide against Palestinians would not have been possible without Microsoft.

It also emerged this week that Microsoft disabled the email account of Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, obstructing the execution of arrest warrants against Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders.

This is no unsurprise.
The links between Microsoft and Israel is so long, deep, and extensive that it is often difficult to discern where Microsoft ends and the Israeli regime begins.

Microsoft employs more than a thousand former Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers in its offices in Israel and has hired dozens more at its headquarters in Redmond, Seattle, as well as offices in Miami, San Francisco, Boston, and New York.

Microsoft has helped enable some of the worst crimes against humanity we have ever seen. Their claim of exoneration through an internal investigation is lauphable and reeks of fear of consequences now apparent to senior executives.

Another indication that many Microsoft employees view their civilian work as serving a genocidal mission was seen last year when, amid the genocide, a large Israeli flag was hung across multiple floors of Microsoft’s building in the Gav Yam Technology Park in Be’ersheba, Israel.

Microsoft is deeply woven into the architecture of the Israeli regime’s genocide, with agents of that regime holding key roles in the company’s products and operations.

When the reckoning comes for Israel, it must come for Microsoft too.