Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebrations interrupted by another Pro-Palestine protests: CEOs ‘shamed’, emails sent and …

Microsoft’s 50th anniversary festivities were marred by dual Pro-Palestine protests. On Friday, April 4, two separate incidents involving Microsoft employees disrupted the milestone celebration at the company’s Washington headquarters. In each case, the disruptive employee followed their outburst by sending mass emails to colleagues, both containing nearly identical demands for Microsoft leadership to cease providing Israel with “lethal technology” that they claimed enables “apartheid and genocide” in Gaza.

The initial disturbance occurred during a presentation by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer from the company’s AI division specializing in speech recognition, interrupted the proceedings with a pointed message.