Microsoft Worker EXPOSES Israel After Cloud AI SHUTDOWN | Katie Halper 10/2/25

Microsoft Worker EXPOSES Israel After Cloud AI SHUTDOWN - Katie Halper Summary:

- 0:00-0:50 - Microsoft announces withdrawal of some cloud and AI services from Israeli military Unit 8200 (Israel's NSA), becoming first US company to withdraw technology from Israeli military since genocide began - "unprecedented move" but only partial win

- 1:23-2:16 - Microsoft, Google, and Amazon provide cloud services enabling Israeli military to store "massive amounts of surveillance data" on Palestinians including phone calls, text messages, locations - all collected through espionage and surveillance

- 2:16-2:43 - After October 7th, Israel increased reliance on surveillance data but "simply do not have enough servers in Israel to store all of that" - had to outsource to Microsoft, Google, Amazon for necessary scale

- 2:43-3:32 - Israel "automates pretty much everything" using AI services from these companies: transcribing, translation, aggregating information, and most dangerously - feeding data into AI systems that decide "who is a terrorist and who is not"

- 3:33-4:10 - Three AI systems revealed: "The Gospel" marks civilian targets for bombing (schools, hospitals) to create "civilian pressure"; "Lavender" marks individuals as terrorists; "Where's Daddy" tracks people and waits until they're home with families to signal bombing

- 4:10-4:39 - This AI ecosystem enables Israeli military to "vastly accelerate its genocide in levels never before seen" - before it took one week to authorize one airstrike, now they authorize 20+ airstrikes in same timeframe

- 4:39-5:17 - Microsoft "perhaps the most complicit tech company" - embedded in every major Israeli military infrastructure, sends engineers to embed in military units "and behave as if they were soldiers," provides consulting to prison services

- 5:17-6:12 - "We should treat them as weapons manufacturers" producing "digital weapons" as essential as bombs and bullets; No Azure for Apartheid campaign launched May 2024 with four demands: end Azure sales to military, disclose all ties, call for ceasefire, end discrimination against Arab/Muslim/pro-Palestinian employees

- 6:13-7:08 - Unit 8200 functions like Israel's NSA - military spy unit tracking "pretty much every phone call made by a Palestinian," storing data on Microsoft servers to target people in Gaza and "retroactively justify the murder of Palestinians" in West Bank

- 7:08-9:06 - Guardian report revealed terabytes of Palestinian phone surveillance data stored on Microsoft Azure; Microsoft opened second investigation and withdrew "only some services" (storage and some AI) but "have not cut the contract with Unit 8200" or other units

- 9:06-9:57 - Microsoft's relationship with Israeli military spans "more than 30 years" and current CEO met with Unit 8200 head four years ago to make deal - "they cannot claim ignorance" about involvement in apartheid and genocide

- 9:57-10:23 - Worker pressure through petitions, sit-ins, liberated zone encampments at Microsoft headquarters forced this action - "targeted direct action can and does move seemingly immovable mountains" but "this is simply not enough"

- 10:23-11:36 - Warning: Tech companies selling "capacity to control, surveil, dominate at scale" globally - surveillance systems and AI already being used by US military, ICE detention centers; "It's Palestine today, but it's all of us tomorrow"
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'Microsoft Worker EXPOSES Israel After Cloud AI SHUTDOWN' | Katie Halper |
Oct 2, 2025 | https://youtu.be/Jom99yed3jo?si=sk19U3_iW2FG0bax

Vaniya Agrawal & Hossam Nasr, two former Microsoft workers helped pressure the company to bar the Israeli military from using Microsoft services to spy on millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza & the occupied West Bank & stored in Microsoft’s vast Azure cloud computing platform. But there's more work to be done, as Microsoft continues to collaborate w/Israel in other ways.

00:00 Microsoft is withdrawing AI services they were providing to the Israeli military
01:23 How exactly is Microsoft connected to Israel
02:00 Storing enormous amounts of surveillance data on Palestinians not enough servers in the whole country for this data
02:42 Israel automates pretty much everything using AI
03:33 The Gospel is an AI system that identifies civilian targets for bombing
04:38 Microsoft specifically is perhaps the most complicit
05:15 Tech companies are essentially weapons manufacturers
06:12 Unit 8200 is Israel’s NSA surveillance division
07:08 What they want Microsoft to do next
08:00 They have revoked SOME service but have not cut the contracts with Unit 8200
09:04 Microsoft cannot claim ignorance
10:22 Tech weapons used in the genocide are already starting to be used against all of us

Roger Waters is a singer, songwriter & musician, best known for being a member of the legendary rock band, Pink Floyd. He's also an outspoken activist for peace, a free Palestine & several other causes that get him in trouble.

Vaniya is an organizer w/No Azure for Apartheid & ex-Microsoft worker who was terminated for protesting at Microsoft's 50th anniversary keynote event, where she disrupted a panel of current & former Microsoft CEOs including Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, & Steve Ballmer. Since then, she has continued organizing w/NoAA to apply pressure on Microsoft executives to meet workers' demands. Most recently Vaniya was arrested twice last month for participating in encampments on Microsoft campus, & occupying the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith at Microsoft's global headquarters.

Hossam Nasr is the co-founder of No Azure for Apartheid & a former Microsoft worker. He worked at the company for 3 years before being fired in October last year for organizing a vigil on Microsoft campus for the Palestinians killed in Gaza. Since then, he has organized w/NOAA to pressure Microsoft to end its relationship w/the Israeli military & confronted executives at company events. Most recently Hossam was arrested twice last month after participating in the Liberated Zone encampment on Microsoft's campus & the sit-in at Brad Smith's office.

Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst & commentator specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict & the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer w/the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East w/the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, Senior Middle East Analyst & Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine w/the Int'l Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya & a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report.

Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official & a specialist in international human rights law, policy, & methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" & accusing the UN of failing to act.
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