Amazon fires engineer linked to ‘occupying protests’ at Microsoft president’s office; also distributed fliers saying …

Amazon has fired a 29-year-old Palestinian engineer who protested against the e-commerce giant’s ties to the Israeli government. Ahmed Shahrour was among a group of seven current and former tech workers who occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith’s office in August this year. According to a Bloomberg report, Ahmed Shahrour worked as a software engineer in Amazon’s Whole Foods business in Seattle. He was suspended last month after he posted a series of messages to corporate Slack chat rooms criticizing Amazon’s connections to Israel. Shahrour subsequently protested and handed out fliers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters campus.

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