Before Ibtihal Aboussad was fired by Microsoft for protesting the companys work with the Israeli military during a celebration of the firms 50th anniversary, she sent two emails. The first went to all of her colleagues. She appealed to their universal humanity and urged them to stand against Microsofts contracts to provide cloud computing software and artificial intelligence products to the Israeli Defense Forces IDF. She sent the second to the “Muslims at Microsoft” email list. Its subject...
