Anonymous Jewish Googler:

I joined Google during a time in the COVID-19 pandemic where work was fully remote. It was difficult to meet new people and form connections with others as a new employee, so when I found the Jewish employee resource group at Google, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to connect with other employees beyond our work lives. However, I quickly found that being a Jewish worker who disagrees with Zionism means that you are unwelcome in a community space that is purported to be for you.

Zionist employees at Google have called for myself and my fellow Jewish coworkers to be fired for speaking up about our concerns with Project Nimbus, accused us of being antisemitic and shameful to the Jewish community, and have harassed several anti-Zionist Palestinian, Muslim, and Jewish workers across the company. While there have been several kind and thoughtful members of the Jewish employee resource group who have tried to support these workers at an individual level, the Jewish employee resource group as a structure has failed to support workers who have faced harassment.

In response, Google leadership has treated the company-sponsored Jewish employee resource group, whose incentives as a company-sponsored group are aligned with maintaining the company's status quo, as the singular voice of Jewish workers at Google. Not only has this sidelining of anti-Zionist workers, including anti-Zionist Jews, served to quell discussion of Google's contracts with governments and their militaries, but it has also pitted marginalized communities against one another, and actively hurt workers who are personally impacted by the occupation of Palestine.

It is so heartbreaking to see the pain and harms of antisemitism weaponized to cause more pain and harm to Palestinians. It is just as heartbreaking to see how this weaponization is further exploited by non-Jewish people and Google leadership to divide coalitions of marginalized workers who could and should be in solidarity with one another.