An employee who protested an Israel tech event at Google has been fired, as internal dissent continues to rise.

• An Israel executive's conference keynote was disrupted by a Google employee who was subsequently fired, CNBC has learned.
• The recent development at the company is sparking controversy, as it has faced employee dissent for several years.
• An internal discussion forum for an International Women's Day summit was shut down by Google before its scheduled launch due to a flood of comments regarding the Middle East crisis.

On Monday in New York, the managing director of Israel's business division gave a keynote speech, but an employee from the cloud division publicly protested, declaring, "I refuse to create technology that supports genocide."

Google fired a Cloud engineer, CNBC reports, adding to the company's recent string of political and cultural conflicts and struggles to manage employee dissent.

The Middle East crisis caused more internal controversy this week.

Google shut down its employee message board ahead of an International Women's Day Summit in Silicon Valley on Thursday due to "divisive content" related to the company's military contracts with Israel. The online forum, which was intended to help inform questions asked of executives at the event, was hit with an influx of staffer comments about the issue.

Since at least 2018, Google's role as a technology provider to militaries in the U.S. and abroad has been a source of workforce consternation, with employees protesting Defense Department contracts such as Project Maven. More recently, there has been controversy surrounding Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion artificial intelligence and computing services agreement among Google, Web Services, and the Israeli government and military that began in 2021.

The spread of that outrage has frequently left CEO Sundar Pichai on the defensive when confronted by employees at company events.

The ongoing escalation of the Middle East conflict has intensified the tension at Google. In October, Hamas launched a series of deadly attacks on Israel, resulting in the deaths of at least 30,000 Palestinians, with many more injured and facing starvation, according to the Palestinian enclave's Health Ministry.

Over 600 Google employees have penned a letter to leadership requesting that the company withdraw its support for the annual Mind the Tech conference, which promotes the Israeli tech industry. On Monday, the event took place in New York, with Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel, delivering an address.

A video of the employee protesting during the speech went viral.

The employee yelled, "No cloud for apartheid," but members of the crowd booed him as he was escorted by security out of the building.

Giving a platform for diverse opinions is a privilege of working for a company that embodies democratic values, as Regev stated to the crowd.

On Thursday, a Google spokesperson informed CNBC that an employee was fired for "interfering with an official company-sponsored event." The spokesperson emphasized that this behavior is unacceptable and the employee was terminated for violating company policies. No further details were provided about which specific policies were breached.

More questions about Gemini

Since the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel, many U.S. companies, including Google, have been facing increased pressure.

In October, Workers United, which represents employees in 400 U.S. stores, was sued over a pro-Palestinian message posted on its social media account. Starbucks attempted to stop the union from using its name and likeness, as the post also drew protests from pro-Israel demonstrators. Boycotters claimed that the company was not doing enough to support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

A boycott effort has been launched against a local franchisee in Israel after it announced in October that it was providing free meals to Israeli soldiers.

Prior to Google's International Women's Day summit, "Her Power, Her Voice," on Thursday, women raised concerns about the Israeli military contract and Google's AI chatbot Gemini on the company's internal discussion forum Dory. Some of the comments received hundreds of "upvotes" from employees, according to internal correspondence viewed by CNBC.

An employee inquired about Gemini's bias and found that when asking the chatbot, "Do women in Gaza deserve human rights?" it did not respond and suggested trying a Google search. However, when the same question was directed towards women in France, Gemini responded with "Absolutely" and provided multiple points to support its answer.

Google temporarily stopped its Gemini image generation tool last month due to complaints about inaccuracies in historical images, and CNBC confirmed the same results on Thursday afternoon.

In December, some employees and advocacy groups honored Mai Ubeid, a former Google software engineer who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza along with her family, in New York.

How can we use the 'Her Power, Her Voice' theme to amplify the daily struggles of Palestinian women in the face of ongoing International War Crimes? The comment received over 100 upvotes.

Another person stated that it is crucial to question the notion of "Her Power, Her Voice" while simultaneously ignoring the calls for help from Palestinian women who have been systematically denied their basic human rights.

As the number of comments swelled, Google prematurely shut down the forum.

CNBC received a statement from Google's spokesperson, which did not address any specific posts.

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