Anti-Israel activists protesting Google contracts with the Israeli government by occupying the technology giant’s office in New York City and Sunnyvale for several hours on Tuesday, were arrested and put on administrative leave, according to a Google spokesperson.

The Jerusalem Post further reported that "Protesters were arrested by police officers after refusing to leave Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s Sunnyvale office or New York City Chelsea workspace for almost 10 hours. The sit-in protests were live-streamed by the No Tech for Apartheid activist movement, which claims to represent technology company employees against business with the State of Israel.

“Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and we will investigate and take action,” a Google spokesperson said.

“These employees were put on administrative leave and their access to our systems was cut. After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety.”

On April 02, Wired reported that several retail and corporate employees of the company were reportedly disciplined or “wrongfully terminated” for expressing support for Palestinian people through pins, bracelets, or keffiyeh.

Around this time, many others at the Lincoln Park store also began wearing jewelry showing support for Palestinians, like bracelets with watermelons or phrases like “Free Gaza,” Ra’ouf, the Apples4Ceasefire organizer says. He says that shortly before Espinoza was fired about 40 Lincoln Park employees were verbally reprimanded by management for wearing the bracelets.

Business Insider reported in November that Apple had moved to quell internal friction over the Israel-Hamas war, deleting Slack posts about the conflict and “pausing" Slack channels for Jewish and Muslim employees.

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It's true, Gaza should and will be free; free of Hamas terrorists in the not-too-distant future.  Bringing politics into the workplace is disruptive and I appreciate that Apple and Google have taken the actions that they have.