Microsoft fired two employees on Wednesday after they broke into the office of its vice chair and company president, Brad Smith, earlier this week as part of a protest of the technology company's purported links to Israel.

The terminations came after a group of seven people broke into executive offices at Microsoft's global headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday to hold a sit-in. No Azure for Apartheid, an advocacy group organized by Microsoft employees, said in an Instagram post that current and former workers from Microsoft, Google and Oracle were part of the group that occupied Smith's office.

The protesters, who were arrested by police on Tuesday, were demanding that Microsoft cut ties with Israel after The Guardian reported earlier this month that a unit of the Israeli

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