Google has sacked 28 employees who protested the technology giant’s work for the Israeli military by staging sit-ins at the company’s US offices.The staff were fired after demonstrations at Google offices in New York and Silicon Valley, in which nine were arrested after refusing to leave.Google is facing protests over its work providing cloud computing services and artificial intelligence software to the Israeli government through a programme known as Project Nimbus, which is reportedly worth up to $1.2bn (£1bn). On Tuesday, dozens of staff wearing T-shirts saying “Googler against genocide” unfurled banners and posed inside the office of Thomas Kurian, the head of Google’s cloud computing division. They held signs with slogans including “No more genocide for profit” and “No cloud for apartheid”. The protests were organised by the campaign group No Tech For Apartheid, which broadcast them on the streaming site Twitch. On Wednesday Google staff were told that staff had immediately been placed under investigation and had their access to IT systems shut off, and that 28 were fired. Chris Rackow, Google’s head of security, wrote: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re...