Google has been accused of throwing a “tantrum” after sacking more than 50 workers in response to a protest over the company’s military ties to the Israeli government — firings that have shone a light on a controversial project and long-simmering tensions between staff and management, The Guardian reports.

Emaan Haseem, a software engineer at Google and organiser with No Tech for Apartheid, was one of the fired workers. “Many of us had just recently gotten promoted. I was the fastest promoted person underneath my manager,” she said.

This was a peaceful protest, she said.

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