Protesters at Amazon HQ Chant “One Solution, Intifada Revolution”
Marking two years since October 7, protesters of the "Amazon Worker Intifada" movement gathered outside the Seattle HQ waving "intifada" banners and shouting inciteful chants.
On Wednesday, October 8, 2025, dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Amazon’s headquarters in downtown Seattle to protest the company’s business ties with the Israeli government, marking the latest flashpoint in a growing wave of activism against the tech giant’s role in global defense contracts.
Videos shared on X, showed protesters chanting “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution,” while others held large signs that read “INTIFADA.” The sight drew strong reactions online, with critics accusing protesters of fueling antisemitic hostility.
This protest was the latest in a series of rallies held across the country demanding that Amazon sever its defense and surveillance contracts with Israel. Similar demonstrations have taken place in New York, San Francisco, and other major cities since early 2024, often featuring chants and slogans that critics describe as inflammatory.
Amazon Software Engineer Suspended
The most recent protest came just weeks after Amazon suspended one of its employees, Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian software engineer after urging workers to join him in protesting the company’s relationship with the Israeli government and who had publicly criticized a cloud-computing project that Amazon and Google have with the Israeli government, Project Nimbus.
According to reporting by The Seattle Times, Shahrour was placed on paid administrative leave in September after sending company-wide emails and posting in internal chat channels urging colleagues to participate in a walkout against the contract.
Ahmed, who wrote a message to all amazon workers on Medium, also criticized a two-year-old e-mail that CEO Andy Jassy sent just two days after October 7th, 2023, in which Jassy expressed “sympathy for Israeli hostages without a single acknowledgement of Palestinian life.”
Ahmed continued by saying “this was a blatant act of white supremacy, signaling that brown lives are worth less. My family is less. I am less.” He ended the letter by saying: “to the Amazon executives incubating Project Nimbus: do yourselves a favor and drop it. We, the workers, outnumber you. We will force your hand. We are done using your channels. A new, worker-led Palestinian resistance is forming at Amazon.”