Google fired 28 employees for staging in-office protests against the company's contract with Israel

• Nine Google employees were arrested after protesting the company's contract with Israel.
• The company fired 28 employees in California and New York.
• Another employee was fired last month for protesting the same contract in New York.

A small group of Alphabet employees' long-simmering protests against the Google parent company's work with Israel ended with more than two dozen terminations on Wednesday.

Google fired 28 employees who participated in office protests in New York and California on Tuesday, the company said on Wednesday.