{"id":6944,"date":"2026-06-17T07:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=6944"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:25:27","slug":"stanford-grads-walk-out-on-google-ceos-commencement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/stanford-grads-walk-out-on-google-ceos-commencement-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Grads Walk Out on Google CEO&#8217;s Commencement Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstration was orchestrated by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>. Video footage circulated on social media captured the graduates rising from their seats and marching out while chanting &#8220;Free, free Palestine,&#8221; with several displaying Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maattttbrown\/status\/2066215255987163246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sundar Pichai<\/strong>, himself a Stanford alumnus, continued delivering his address despite the disruption during the Sunday ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The far-left campus organizations behind the walkout have previously promoted social media influencers in Gaza who openly celebrated the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that resulted in the massacre of Jewish civilians, <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the protest lies Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract under which Google and Amazon provide cloud data services to the Israeli military and government. The arrangement has sparked controversy since 2021, when a coalition of employees from both tech companies published an open letter condemning their employers&#8217; decision to supply Israel with the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Google has taken a hard line against internal opposition to the contract. In 2024, the company terminated 28 employees who participated in sit-in protests at its New York and California offices over Project Nimbus.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford walkout represents the latest in a wave of disruptions targeting Big Tech executives at graduation ceremonies this year. Former Google CEO and major Democrat donor <strong>Eric Schmidt<\/strong> faced widespread booing from University of Arizona graduates last month during his commencement speech about young people&#8217;s concerns regarding artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Apple cofounder <strong>Steve Wozniak<\/strong> received an enthusiastic reception at Grand Valley State University&#8217;s graduation ceremony last month, where he championed the superiority of human intelligence over AI.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the walkout, Pichai reportedly pressed forward with his prepared remarks, which focused on the importance of adapting to technological change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 Stanford graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke, protesting the company&#8217;s $1.2 billion cloud services contract with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":6943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[4846,7059,7060,2912,7061,2913,209],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-6944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-google","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-project-nimbus","tag-stanford-university","tag-student-protest","tag-sundar-pichai","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7009,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions\/7009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=6944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}