Amazon.com Inc. has fired an employee, Ahmed Shahrour, a 29-year-old Palestinian engineer, for protesting the company's business ties with the Israeli government. The termination on Monday was attributed to violations of company policy, with an internal email stating Shahrour made statements intended to “threaten, intimidate, coerce or interfere with” senior leaders and colleagues. This action comes in the context of ongoing employee activism against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint cloud computing contract held by Amazon and Google to provide services to Israeli government and military entities. The firing could intensify scrutiny and debate over the company's policies on employee expression and its involvement in sensitive government contracts.