India, April 8 -- Microsoft has fired one of two employees who interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebrations with pro-Palestine protests. According to Verge, Ibtihal Aboussad had her employment terminated shortly after she confronted Microsoft's AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, while he was speaking onstage.

Aboussad was one of two Microsoft employees who interrupted the 50th anniversary event to register their protest against the company's ties with Israel. The other was Indian-American engineer Vaniya Agrawal, who started speaking while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was on the stage with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

In a mass email sent to colleagues after she was escorted out of the venue, Agrawal said she had decided to leave the ...