Microsoft employee bypasses ‘Palestine’ block to email thousands of staff in protest

A Microsoft worker has managed to circumvent a artifact instituted earlier this week that constricted mentions of "Palestine," "Gaza," and "genocide" successful email taxable lines oregon successful the assemblage of a message. Nisreen Jaradat, a elder tech enactment technologist astatine Microsoft, emailed thousands of employees connected Friday greeting with the taxable enactment "You can't get escaped of us."

"As a Palestinian worker, I americium fed up with the mode our radical person been treated by this company," the note, a transcript of which was obtained by The Verge, reads. "I americium sending this email arsenic a connection to Microsoft leaders: the outgo of trying to soundlessness each voices that situation to humanize Palestinians is acold higher than simply listening to the concerns of your employees."

It's not instantly wide however Jaradat got astir the block. The email calls connected Microsoft employees to sign a petition by the No Azure for Apartheid group, which urges Microsoft to extremity its contracts with the Israeli government. No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA) is down respective high-profile protestation actions successful caller weeks, and Jaradat, a member, besides encourages colleagues to articulation the radical successful antithetic capacities. Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw directed The Verge to a p …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.