A senior Microsoft engineer has quit after 13 years, accusing the company of continuing to sell cloud services to the Israeli military and staying silent on the Gaza war.
Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft, announced on Thursday that he is leaving the company, saying he could no longer accept “enabling what may be the worst atrocities of our time.” In a farewell letter to colleagues, he referenced an Associated Press report from February that revealed the Israeli military held at least 635 Microsoft subscriptions, most of which he claimed are still active.
Microsoft declined to comment on his resignation.
The exit comes just a day after President Donald Trump said Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a peace plan, two years into the ongoing conflict. According to the Associated Press, the US is also sending about 200 troops to Israel to support the ceasefire deal.
The war has sparked growing dissent inside Microsoft. Several employees have protested the company’s cloud contracts with the Israeli military, and five have been dismissed in recent months. In September, Microsoft said it had stopped providing certain services to a division of Israel’s Ministry of Defence after reviewing allegations that surveillance tools were being used to track Palestinians.
Outside Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, activists from the group No Azure for Apartheid joined employees in calling on the firm to cut all ties with Israel. Sutfin-Glowski said internal communication channels to raise such concerns had been shut down.
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