Technology

The absolute legends from pro-Palestine campaign group Your Tech Their Deaths (YTTD) have disrupted a Dublin conference hosted by the disgraced Microsoft, a company that has operated as the tech backbone of so-called ‘Israel’s’ holocaust in Gaza.

Activists at YTTD rightly aren’t prepared to tolerate this corporate abomination operating freely in Ireland. As a Microsoft employee was giving a presentation, an activist interrupted proceedings while holding a Palestinian flag. She said:

One of the customers of Microsoft is the Israeli military. Microsoft uses their computing AI Azure to help Israeli military target and surveil Palestinians. Just like IBM was helping [the Nazis] to target the Jews, Microsoft is helping to target Palestinians in Palestine and Gaza. Microsoft is complicit with their cloud and their technology in killing Palestinians.*

When a man asked her to stop, she replied: “Then you need to stop your contracts”. The activist urged Microsoft employees to join No Azure for Apartheid, as a second activist joined in.

The action was a success, causing a complete halt to the Microsoft presentation. Nearly all audience members left the room. The Canary spoke to YTTD founder Jude Farrell, who suggested that maybe “they were embarrassed to be there in the first place”. When the talk restarted, other activists who had previously remained silent then disrupted proceedings once more.