Microsoft terminates jobs of engineers who protested use of AI products by Israel’s military

Microsoft End the employment of software engineers who protest In the company’s events on Friday about the Israeli army’s use of the artificial smart company’s products, according to the documents seen in CNBC.

Ibtihal AbousSad, a software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence department, which is based in Canada, was launched on Monday due to “a fair cause, deliberate misconduct, disobedience or deliberate neglect of the duty,” according to one of the documents.

Another software engineer from Microsoft, Vaniya Agrawal, said that she will resign from the company on Friday, April 11. But Microsoft ended its role on Monday, according to an internal message that saw CNBC. The company wrote that it “decided to make your resignation effective immediately today.”

Both employees have chosen the fiftieth anniversary of Microsoft to express their criticism publicly. What you hoped is that Microsoft would be a festive period that has turned into a few brutal days of the company, which is beaten, along with the rest of the market, by President Donald Trump’s wide tariff. It is a topic that was forced by CEO Satia Nadella and Aslafa, Bill Gates and Steve Palmer, on that Uncomfortable confrontation Friday in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin from CNBC.

“As a shareholder of Microsoft, this type of things is not good,” Palmer said.

Meanwhile, the same celebration was the headlines of the joint message of the demonstrators than Microsoft’s half -century.

Microsoft did not immediately make a comment.

The first interruption came on Friday from AbousSad, who stood during the speech of Microsoft Ai CEO.

“Mustafa is a shame,” said Abu Siyad. She is walking towards the stage in the event in Redmond, Washington. “You claim that you are interested in using artificial intelligence forever, but Microsoft sells the IDF weapons. Fifty thousand people have died, and Microsoft refers to this genocide in our region.”

Abu Soliman also described it as “a beneficiary of the war.”

She said before she collided quickly. “You have blood on your hands.” “Each of Microsoft has blood on her hands.”

Shortly after the interruption, AbousSad sent an email, seen by CNBC, to Soleyman and other Microsoft CEOs, including CEO Satia Nadella, President of Financial Amy Hood, President of Carolina Deepy Hap and Brad Smith, President of the company.

“I spoke today because after I learned that Org was working to operate the genocide of my people in Palestine, I have not seen any other moral choice,” Abu Sadd wrote in the email. “This is especially true when I saw how Microsoft tried to suppress and suppress any opposition from my colleagues at the work who tried to raise this issue.”

AbousSad continued in the email, “I did not register to write a symbol that violates human rights”, add a link to “No Azure to separate the apartheid“Seek.

Microsoft wrote in the internal message that AbousSad email for CEOs is “acknowledgment that you have deliberately and deeply participated in your previous misconduct.” The company also said that Abu Saad could have raised concerns “confidentiality with your manager, or with international staff relationships. Instead, you chose to disrupt the CEO of Microsoft Ai Mustafa Sucalyman.”

The document continued, saying that Microsoft “concluded that your bad behavior was designed to gain a bad reputation and causes maximum disruption to this very expected event.”

“The immediate stopping of your work is the only appropriate response,” Microsoft wrote.

At a separate event of Microsoft with CEOs on Friday, Agrawal boycotted a letter from Nadella with a similar protest and sent an email to the executives after that.

“Maybe you have seen me stand earlier today to summon Satia during his speech on the fiftieth anniversary of Microsoft,” Agrawal wrote in the email, which CNBC watched on Friday. “Over the past 1.5 years, it has become more aware of the growing role of Microsoft in the military industrial complex.”

Agrawal wrote that Microsoft “is complicit” as “a factory of digital weapons that operate monitoring, apartheid, and genocide”, adding that “by working in this company, we are all complicit.”

A Microsoft spokesman said on Friday that the company is committed to adhering to the highest standards of commercial practices.

The spokesman said: “We offer many ways to all the voices that must be heard. Most importantly, we ask that this be done in a way that does not cause disruption. If this happens, we ask the participants to move,” the spokesman said.