{"id":961452,"date":"2025-09-13T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961452"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:13:01","slug":"amazon-suspends-palestinian-engineer-after-criticism-over-israel-ties-he-says-i-am-left-with-no-choice-but-to-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/amazon-suspends-palestinian-engineer-after-criticism-over-israel-ties-he-says-i-am-left-with-no-choice-but-to-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon suspends Palestinian engineer after criticism over Israel ties, he says, \u2018I am left with no choice but to resist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce giant Amazon has suspended a software engineer who spoke against the company\u2019s collaboration with the government of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer based in Seattle working for Amazon\u2019s Whole Foods, was told on Monday morning that he had been suspended with pay \u201cuntil further notice\u201d after posting messages on Slack criticising the company\u2019s work with Israel, according to a report by CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce giant Amazon has suspended a software engineer who spoke against the company\u2019s collaboration with the government of Israel. Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer based in Seattle working for Amazon\u2019s Whole Foods, was told on Monday morning that he had been suspended with pay \u201cuntil further notice\u201d after posting messages on Slack criticising the company\u2019s work with Israel, according to a report by CNBC.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961452","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=961452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}