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BDS Targets Microsoft Is Powering Genocide in Gaza — Here’s How You Can #DropMicrosoft Today

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🧠 TL;DR:
Microsoft isn’t just making Word docs and Xbox games. It’s deeply complicit in Israel’s apartheid and genocide against Palestinians — through cloud tech, surveillance, and AI warfare tools.

Let’s break it down 👇🏽

💣 Microsoft is fueling war crimes

🔍 Investigations from The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and AP reveal that Microsoft Azure powers the Israeli military’s AI systems, used to automate bombing campaigns in Gaza.

This includes:

  • “Lavender” AI: Rates Palestinians from 1–100 as potential targets.
  • “Gospel” AI: Picks homes to strike, often with entire families inside.
  • “Where’s Daddy”: Tracks if a target is home to justify bombing civilian apartments.

These tools are powered by Microsoft’s cloud, and yes, Microsoft knows. They've doubled down anyway.

🚀 Military collabs? Microsoft is all in.

Microsoft isn’t just passively hosting tech. They’re embedding employees inside Israeli army units — like:

  • Unit 8200: Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence group.
  • Ofek: Maintains the “target bank” for lethal airstrikes.
  • Mamram: Designs the computing systems that keep all of it running.

Microsoft engineers train Israeli soldiers on simulation systems. They run tech workshops with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. They even sponsored the “I Love Mamram” military tech conference in 2024.

Let that sink in.

🎮 Microsoft makes money off your gaming — and war

Here’s what your Microsoft dollars help fund:

🎮 Xbox subscriptions
🕹️ Minecraft, Call of Duty, Candy Crush
💻 Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook)
🌐 Azure (cloud hosting for AI + data)
🖥️ Surface devices
🤖 Copilot AI tools

That money helps fuel an AI-powered apartheid system. From military surveillance to illegal settlements, Microsoft is in deep.

📉 What impact has already been made?

✅ In 2020, BDS pressure forced Microsoft to divest $74M from AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition company used to spy on Palestinians.
✅ Over 223,000 letters have been sent to Microsoft executives demanding they drop Israeli military contracts.
✅ Over 2,100 Microsoft workers have signed a petition against complicity in genocide.
The pressure works — and it’s time to ramp it up. 🧨

✊🏽 What You Can Do — Right Now

Let’s be real: Microsoft won’t back down unless we force them to. Here's how 👇🏽

🧾 1. Sign & Send a Letter

Let Microsoft’s execs hear you LOUD and CLEAR.
📍 Sign the petition: noaa.cc/sign
📍 Send a letter: noaa.cc/letter

🎮 2. Boycott Their Products

Every dollar is a vote. Don't fund genocide.
❌ Cancel Xbox Game Pass
❌ Uninstall Minecraft, Call of Duty, Candy Crush
❌ Ditch Microsoft 365, Bing, Edge, Copilot
✅ Switch to free & ethical alternatives: LibreOffice, Firefox, ProtonMail, etc.

🎓 3. Organize at Your School

📣 Start or join a divestment campaign
🚫 Push your university to cut contracts
🚪 Exclude Microsoft from career fairs
🎤 Disrupt Microsoft hackathons

🏙️ 4. Push Local Governments

Demand local governments and Pride celebrations drop Microsoft sponsorships as a commitment to intersectional liberation.

🧑🏽‍💻 5. If You Work at Microsoft...

🙌🏽 You're not alone. Join the internal campaign:
📍 Sign the petition: noaa.cc/petition
📍 Join the movement: noaa.cc/join
📩 Email: noazureforapartheid@proton.me

🧨 Microsoft Is Complicit. Make Them Pay.

They’re providing the infrastructure, surveillance, and AI used to kill, displace, and monitor Palestinians. That’s not innovation — it’s digital apartheid.

It's time to:

🧼 Scrub Microsoft out of our lives.
📢 Educate others.
💥 Organize collectively.
📉 Tank the profits.

📣 Microsoft doesn’t get to play dumb.

💸 They know exactly what they’re doing.
📊 They’ve doubled their Azure usage by the Israeli military since October 2023.
👥 They’ve embedded engineers directly into army operations.

Let’s make it clear:
No tech for genocide. No cloud for apartheid. Use Boycat today.


#DropMicrosoft. Now.




Subsidiaries:
(source: https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar96/financials/sd.htm)

GraceMac Corporation (NEVADA)
Microsoft FSC Corp. (U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS)
Microsoft Manufacturing B.V. (THE NETHERLANDS)
Microsoft Puerto Rico, Inc. (Manufacturing) (DELAWARE)
Vermeer Technologies, Inc. (DELAWARE)
Microsoft de Argentina S.A.
Microsoft Pty Limited (AUSTRALIA)
Microsoft Gesellschaft m.b.H. (AUSTRIA)
Microsoft N.V. (BELGIUM)
Microsoft Informatica Limitada (BRAZIL)
Microsoft Canada Inc.
Softimage, Inc. (CANADA)
Microsoft Chile S.A.
Microsoft Colombia Inc. (DELAWARE)
Microsoft De Centroamérica S.A. (COSTA RICA)
Microsoft s.r.o. (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Microsoft Danmark ApS (DENMARK)
CorporaciónMicrosoft Del Ecuador S.A.
Microsoft Corporation (Representative Office) (EGYPT)
Microsoft Oy (FINLAND)
Microsoft France S.A.R.L.
Softimage France S.A.R.L.
Microsoft G.m.b.H. (GERMANY)
Softimage G.m.b.H. (GERMANY)
Microsoft Hellas S.A. (GREECE)
Microsoft De Guatemala, S.A.
Microsoft Hong Kong Limited
Microsoft Kft (HUNGARY)
Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Limited
PT. Microsoft Indonesia
Microsoft Israel Ltd.
Microsoft S.p.A. (ITALY)
Microsoft Company, Limited (JAPAN)
Microsoft CH (KOREA)
Microsoft (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
Microsoft México, S.A. de C.V.
Microsoft Maroc S.A.R.L. (MOROCCO)
Microsoft B.V. (THE NETHERLANDS)
Microsoft International B.V. (THE NETHERLANDS)
Microsoft New Zealand Limited
Microsoft Norge AS (NORWAY)
Microsoft De Panama, S.A.
Microsoft (China) Company Limited (THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Microsoft Perú, S.A.
Microsoft Philippines, Inc.
Microsoft sp. z.o.o. (POLAND)
MSFT-Software Para Microcomputadores, LDA (PORTUGAL)
Microsoft Caribbean, Inc. (DELAWARE)
Microsoft Taiwan Corporation (REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Microsoft A.O. (RUSSIA)
Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd
Microsoft Slovakia s.r.o. (SLOVAK REPUBLIC)
Microsoft d.o.o., Ljubljana (SLOVENIA)
Microsoft (S.A.) (Proprietary) Limited (SOUTH AFRICA)
Microsoft Iberica S.R.L. (SPAIN)
Microsoft Aktiebolag (SWEDEN)
Microsoft AG (SWITZERLAND)
Microsoft (Thailand) Limited
Microsoft Bilgisayar Yazilim Hizmetleri Limited Sirketi (TURKEY)
Microsoft Corporation (Dubai Branch) (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)
Microsoft Limited (UNITED KINGDOM)
Softimage U.K. Limited
Microsoft Uruguay S.A.
Corporation MS 90 de Venezuela S.A.
The Resident Representative Office of Microsoft Corporation in Hanoi (VIETNAM)
DreamWorks Interactive L.L.C. (WASHINGTON, 50% owned)
The Microsoft Network L.L.C. (DELAWARE, 80% owned)
MSNBC Cable L.L.C. (DELAWARE, 50% owned)
MSNBC Interactive News L.L.C. (DELAWARE, 50% owned)