近期，微软调整了内部邮件系统，以限制员工发送含有“巴勒斯坦”等关键词的邮件。但这一行为已经引起了员工们的不满，目前已经有一名微软员工成功绕过了公司对“巴勒斯坦”、“加沙”等词汇的封锁，向数千名员工发送了一封主题为“你们无法摆脱我们”的抗议邮件。这封邮件表达了对微软对待巴勒斯坦人民方式的不满，并呼吁同事们签署请愿书，终止与以色列政府的合同。

以下是有关微软员工抗议事件系列的回顾：

微软员工绕过内部邮件封锁

微软的一名员工成功绕过了微软在本周实施的电子邮件限制，根据我们微博收到的消息（可能是通过向外部邮箱发送邮件，然后暗抄 微软员工邮箱）。

微软高级技术支持 Nisreen Jaradat 在 5 月 23 日向数千名员工发送了一封主题为“你们无法摆脱我们”的电子邮件。

邮件内容（全文见文末）

这封邮件的内容由The Verge 获取，其中写道：“作为一名巴勒斯坦员工，我对公司在对待我们人民方面的方式感到厌倦。我发送这封邮件是为了向微软领导层传达一个信息：试图压制所有敢于人性化描述巴勒斯坦人的声音的成本，远高于倾听员工关切的成本。”

邮件中还呼吁微软员工签署“无Azure支持种族隔离”（NOAA）组织发起的请愿书，该组织敦促微软终止与以色列政府的合同。NOAA在过去几周内发起了几次高调的抗议活动，作为成员之一的还鼓励同事们以不同方式加入该组织。

抗议事件回顾

在微软 50 周年特别活动上，有员工现场指责 Mustafa Suleyman 是战争牟利者，控诉 AI 和 Azure 技术以色列政府被用于“种族灭绝”。

Build 2025 开发者大会首日，一名叫做“Joe Lopez”的员工现场打断微软 CEO Satya Nadella 的发言并高呼：“你们为什么不展示一下以色列的战争罪行是如何由 Azure 支持的？”

邮件全文

Yesterday, Microsoft chose to utterly and completely discriminate against an entire nation, an entire people, and an entire community by blocking all employees from sending any outbound email containing the words “Palestine”, “Gaza”, “genocide”, or “apartheid”. Microsoft leaders justified this blatant censorship by saying it was to prevent you from receiving emails like the email that you are reading right now. Even though Microsoft SLT are aware that this “short term solution” is easily bypassable, as this email clearly proves, Microsoft still doubled down, insisted on not rolling back the policy, and decided to continue targeting and repressing their Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and allied workers. They refused to revoke this censorship tactic, despite its potential illegality, dozens of employees expressing how racist of a decision it was, and even leaders admitting they see how it can be perceived as discriminatory and targeted. This further proves how little Microsoft values Palestinian lives and Palestinian suffering.

As a Palestinian worker, I am fed up with the way our people have been treated by this company. I am sending this email as a message to Microsoft leaders: the cost of trying to silence all voices that dare to humanize Palestinians is far higher than simply listening to the concerns of your employees. Had this useless and discriminatory policy been revoked, as I tried to request numerous times through so-called “proper channels”[1][2], I would not be sending you all this email.

Despite claiming to have “heard concerns from our employees and the public regarding Microsoft technologies used by the Israeli military to target civilians or cause harm in the conflict in Gaza” in a statement riddled with lies, admissions, and absurd justifications, Microsoft has shown that they are utterly uninterested in hearing what we have to say.

Microsoft claims that they “provide many avenues for all voices to be heard”. However, whenever we try to discuss anything substantial about divesting from genocide in the “approved channels”, workers are retaliated against, doxxed, or silenced. Microsoft has deleted relevant employee questions in AMAs with executives and shut down Viva Engage posts in dedicated channels for asking SLT questions. Managers have warned outspoken directs to stay quiet and have even openly retaliated against them. When my community tries to flag issues and concerns to HR/GER/WIT, we have been met with racist outcomes with double standards. Throughout all this, Microsoft has sent a clear message to their employees: There are no proper channels at Microsoft to express your concerns, disagreements, or even questions about how Microsoft is using your labor to kill Palestinian babies.

Over this past week, Microsoft has shown their true face, brutalizing, detaining, firing, pepper spraying, threatening and insulting workers and former workers protesting at Microsoft Build. This email censorship is simply the latest example in a long list of recent extreme and outrageous escalations by Microsoft against my community. Enough is enough.

It has become clear that Microsoft will not listen to us out of the goodness of their hearts.

Microsoft will not change their stance just because it is the moral or even legal thing to do. Microsoft will only divest from genocide once it becomes more expensive for them to kill Palestinians than not. Right now, Microsoft makes a lot of money from genocide-profiteering, so we must make support for genocide even more expensive.

The situation in Palestine is more urgent by the minute. More and more Palestinians are being killed of starvation under the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)‘s bombing campaign, invasion, and siege that has martyred an estimated 400,000 Palestinians. The IOF have kidnapped over 16,000 Palestinians and placed them in torture and rape camps. 1.93 million Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced, and over 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the West Bank.

While a hostile work environment is difficult, it cannot compare to the horrors taking place in Palestine – horrors that we as Microsoft employees are complicit in. These futile attempts to silence our community, while painful at times, are evidence that the pressure we are applying is working. This is not the time for baby steps or gradual progress. Starving infants cannot wait any longer. We, as a company of over 200,000 employees, are providing the technological backbone for Israel’s genocidal war machine in Palestinian. We, as employees of this company, have a responsibility to end our employer’s complicity in this AI-assisted genocide! Now is the time to escalate against Microsoft and end this Microsoft-powered genocide!

I am calling on every employee of conscience to:

Sign No Azure for Apartheid’s petition calling for a termination of all Microsoft contracts with the Israeli military and government: https://noaa.cc/petition

Strongly consider whether you want to stay in the company and fight for change from within, or if you want to leave and stop contributing labor to genocide.

If you choose to leave Microsoft to no longer be complicit in genocide, do not go quietly. The No Azure for Apartheid campaign is ready to help you make an impact on your way out for Palestine, and we will also do our best to provide you support before leaving. Reach out to us expressing your interest to leave here.

If you choose to stay, continue to fight from the inside to end Microsoft’s, and your own, complicity in war crimes, join the No Azure for Apartheid campaign. If you are worried about being public with your affiliation, rest assured that as a worker-led grassroots movement, we have members with all levels of anonymity and risk level. Some of our members are publicly visible and will even publicly confront our war-criminal executives, such as Satya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, and Jay Parikh at major Microsoft events like the 50th Anniversary celebration and Microsoft Build. Other members choose to stay completely anonymous and still contribute to the critical work of the campaign. There is room for everyone: https://noaa.cc/join

While I do understand that as Microsoft employees, we cannot fully boycott Microsoft, most of us can focus on the priority targets set by the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement, which recently set Microsoft as a priority target. The main target of the boycott is Microsoft Gaming, especially X-Box. We can also encourage our friends and family to boycott Microsoft where possible.

To Microsoft Senior Leadership team specifically:You cannot silence Palestine.You cannot silence Gaza.You cannot hide your involvement in genocide and apartheid.

Free Palestine

Nisreen Jaradat

目前尚不清楚微软后续会如何回应员工们的这些抗议行为。