{"id":967996,"date":"2025-10-16T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967996"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:43:15","slug":"amazon-fires-engineer-linked-to-occupying-protests-at-microsoft-presidents-office-also-distributed-fliers-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/16\/amazon-fires-engineer-linked-to-occupying-protests-at-microsoft-presidents-office-also-distributed-fliers-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon fires engineer linked to &#8216;occupying protests&#8217; at Microsoft president&#8217;s office; also distributed fliers saying &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has fired a 29-year-old Palestinian engineer who protested against the e-commerce giant\u2019s ties to the Israeli government. Ahmed Shahrour was among a group of seven current and former tech workers who occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith\u2019s office in August this year. According to a Bloomberg report, Ahmed Shahrour worked as a software engineer in Amazon\u2019s Whole Foods business in Seattle. He was suspended last month after he posted a series of messages to corporate Slack chat rooms criticizing Amazon\u2019s connections to Israel. Shahrour subsequently protested and handed out fliers at Amazon\u2019s Seattle headquarters campus.<\/p>\n<p>Why Amazon fired Ahmed Shahrour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has fired a 29-year-old Palestinian engineer who protested against the e-commerce giant\u2019s ties to the Israeli government. Ahmed Shahrour was among a group of seven current and former tech workers who occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith\u2019s office in August this year. According to a Bloomberg report, Ahmed Shahrour worked as a software engineer in Amazon\u2019s Whole Foods business in Seattle. He was suspended last month after he posted a series of messages to corporate Slack chat rooms criticizing Amazon\u2019s connections to Israel. Shahrour subsequently protested and handed out fliers at Amazon\u2019s Seattle headquarters campus. Why Amazon fired Ahmed Shahrour<\/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-967996","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\/967996","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=967996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}