A Seattle-based Amazon employee says he was suspended last week after urging workers to join him in protesting the company’s relationship with the Israeli government.

Ahmed Shahrour, a software engineer, sent emails to executives and posted in company messaging channels last Monday stating that he and other workers refused to remain complicit in genocide.”

They were protesting a cloud-computing project that Amazon and Google have with the Israeli government. Through the $1.2 billion contract, called Project Nimbus, the tech giants provide cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence technology to the government.

Reached for comment Friday, Amazon implied Shahrour’s messages may have violated workplace policies.

“We don’t tolerate discrimination, harassment, or threatening behavior

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