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Hundreds of Amazon employees call for Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy to support Palestine
In an internal letter, they’re asking Amazon to sever business contracts with the Israeli Defense Forces
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More than 500 Amazon employees have signed an internal letter to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy calling for the company to acknowledge the plight of the Palestinian people. The move comes after Israeli airstrikes devastated Palestinians in Gaza, leaving 248 people dead. Hamas and Israel have since agreed to a ceasefire.
“We ask Amazon leadership to acknowledge the continued assault upon Palestinians’ basic human rights under an illegal occupation. without using language that implies a power symmetry or situational equivalency, which minimizes and misrepresents the disruption, destruction, and death that has disproportionately been inflicted upon the Palestinians in recent days and over several decades,” employees wrote. “Amazon emp
Read Letter Amazon Workers Sent to Jeff Bezos Urging Solidarity With Palestinians
On 5/26/21 at 4:25 AM EDT
More than 500 Amazon employees have signed an internal letter to chief executives Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, calling for the company to acknowledge the plight of the Palestinians, days after airstrikes in Gaza that left 248 Palestinians dead and rockets fired by Hamas that killed 13 Israelis, according to both sides medical services.
The employees that signed the letter want Amazon to terminate business contracts with organizations that they allege violate human rights, including the Israeli Defense Forces.
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