Amazon suspends engineer who protested company's work with Israeli government

A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022.Amazon suspended a software engineer who protested the company's work with the Israeli government, CNBC has confirmed.Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer who works for Amazon's Whole Foods business and is based in Seattle, was informed Monday morning that he was being suspended with pay "until further notice" after he posted messages on Slack criticizing the company's ties to Israel."It has come to ...