{"id":956626,"date":"2025-08-21T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956626"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:12:47","slug":"microsoft-sees-biggest-escalation-yet-of-protests-over-palestine-liberated-zone-created-in-campus-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/microsoft-sees-biggest-escalation-yet-of-protests-over-palestine-liberated-zone-created-in-campus-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sees biggest escalation yet of protests over Palestine; &#8220;Liberated Zone&#8221; created in campus and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft employees occupied company headquarters Tuesday in the most significant protest yet against the tech giant&#8217;s contracts with Israel, establishing an encampment they renamed &#8220;Martyred Palestinian Children&#8217;s Plaza.&#8221; Around 50 current and former Microsoft workers, alongside community supporters, took over the East Campus Plaza at the company&#8217;s Redmond, Washington headquarters as part of escalating demonstrations by the &#8220;No Azure for Apartheid&#8221; group. The protesters set up tents, erected memorials to Gaza casualties, and established a negotiating table inviting Microsoft executives to &#8220;come to the table&#8221; and end partnerships with the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration ended after approximately two hours when police ordered protesters to leave, threatening arrests for trespassing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft employees occupied company headquarters Tuesday in the most significant protest yet against the tech giant&#8217;s contracts with Israel, establishing an encampment they renamed &#8220;Martyred Palestinian Children&#8217;s Plaza.&#8221; Around 50 current and former Microsoft workers, alongside community supporters, took over the East Campus Plaza at the company&#8217;s Redmond, Washington headquarters as part of escalating demonstrations by the &#8220;No Azure for Apartheid&#8221; group. The protesters set up tents, erected memorials to Gaza casualties, and established a negotiating table inviting Microsoft executives to &#8220;come to the table&#8221; and end partnerships with the Israeli military. The demonstration ended after approximately two hours when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}