Google confirmed it 'terminated' an employee who staged a protest against Israel at a tech event

• Google confirmed it fired an employee who protested publicly against Israel.
• The worker stood and shouted during a presentation by Google Israel's managing director.
• The employee was protesting Project Nimbus, Google's $1.2 billion contract with Israel's government.

A Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now out of a job.

The employee demonstrated during a presentation by Barak Regev, Google Israel's managing director, on Monday in New York City.

"I'm a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance," the worker shouted, according to videos of the event.