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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Owen Scott

REVEALED: Hundreds of stanford students walk out of google ceos commencement speech | Vintage Vibes

  • Around 200 students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai 's commencement speech at Stanford University .
  • The students protested Google's involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal providing cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli government and military.
  • Protesters chanted “free, free Palestine” and waved Palestinian flags as they exited the ceremony.
  • Pichai had previously stated that Google is not a place to 'fight over disruptive issues or debate politics' in response to internal backlash over Project Nimbus.
  • Following the walkout, students organized their own People's Commencement featuring pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil as the keynote speaker.

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Stanford students walk out of Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech amid Google’s Israel-linked Project Nimbus

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