Amazon suspends Palestinian engineer after criticism over Israel ties, he says, ‘I am left with no choice but to resist’
E-commerce giant Amazon has suspended a software engineer who spoke against the company’s collaboration with the government of Israel.
Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer based in Seattle working for Amazon’s Whole Foods, was told on Monday morning that he had been suspended with pay “until further notice” after posting messages on Slack criticising the company’s work with Israel, according to a report by CNBC.
