WASHINGTON: Amazon has suspended a Palestinian software engineer hours after he emailed senior executives and posted on internal Slack channels protesting the company’s ties with the Israeli government. In his letter, Seattle-based Ahmed Shahrour accused Amazon of complicity in Israel’s war in Gaza through Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract signed with Google in 2021 to supply cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technology services to the Israeli government and military.

Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer who works for Amazon's Whole Foods unit, was suspended this week while the company investigates his case.

WASHINGTON: Amazon has suspended a Palestinian software engineer hours after he emailed senior executives and posted on internal Slack channels protesting the company’s ties with…