Microsoft workers and community members held a protest outside the company’s headquarters Tuesday.

The group No Azure for Apartheid called on Microsoft to sever business with the Israeli military. Organizers argued that Microsoft’s technologies enable surveillance and war crimes.

“Microsoft continues to actively arm the ongoing genocide against Palestinians as Israel commits flagrant violations of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, blocks and sabotages aid, and escalates ethnic cleansing in the West Bank,” No Azure for Apartheid stated. “Microsoft Ignite, the company’s premier conference with over 15,000 attendees, will be marketing Cloud & AI technologies — the same technologies Microsoft sells to the Israeli military to commit war crimes.”

Approximately 20 people participated in the p

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