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Microsoft employee bypasses ‘Palestine’ block to email thousands of staff in protest

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Nisreen Jaradat , a senior tech support engineer at Microsoft , managed to circumvent a block instituted earlier this week that limited mentions of “Palestine”, “ Gaza ,” and “Genocide” in email subject lines or in the body of a message.

The email calls on Microsoft employees to sign a petition by the No Azure for Apartheid group, which urges Microsoft to end its contracts with the Israeli government.

Microsoft put this email block in place during the same week when current and former Microsoft employees, and hundreds of others, have been protesting against the company’s contracts.

Microsoft has shown that they are utterly uninterested in hearing what we have to say.

Microsoft claims that they “provide many avenues for all voices to be heard” Microsoft claims to have “heard concerns from our employees and the public regarding Microsoft technologies used by the Israeli military to target civilians or cause harm in the conflict in Gaza ”.

You cannot hide your involvement in genocide and apartheid. Fre e PalestineNisreen Jaradat .

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