We are Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab Google employees joined by anti-Zionist Jewish colleagues. We cannot remain silent in the face of the hate, abuse, and retaliation that we are being subjected to in the workplace in this moment.

As we mourn the continued and relentless loss of innocent Palestinian lives, including those of our own loved ones, our collective grief is exacerbated by campaigns of hate, abuse and retaliation inside Google. Palestinians have been publicly called “animals” on official Google work platforms, as leadership has stood idly by. Muslims have endured accusations of supporting terrorism as part of their religion and associated slander against the Prophet Muhammad — again, as leadership has stood idly by. Google managers have called employees “sick” and a “lost cause” for showing empathy towards the besieged residents of Gaza, and have even publicly asked Arab and Muslim Googlers if they support Hamas as a response to said Googlers expressing empathy or concern for Palestinian families’ safety. There are even coordinated efforts to stalk the public lives of workers sympathetic to Palestine and to report them both to Google and law enforcement for “supporting terrorism.” Other examples of repressing and punishing Google employees who speak out against what they rightfully deem a genocide against the Palestinian people — as well as other examples of widespread anti-Muslim hatred systematically condoned by Google leadership — have also included:​​​​

• Google leadership allowing dehumanizing, racist comments against Palestinians as a people on official Google work platforms. For example, Googlers’ he