Publisher: No Azure For Apartheid (Medium)
Date Published: June 27, 2026
Relevant To: Data center human rights implications; primary source for Nour resignation letter
Verification Status: Verified — Primary Source (Advocacy Campaign’s Own Account)
Notes: Confirmed via full-text fetch — this is the PRIMARY source (No Azure For Apartheid’s own account, publishing the full verbatim text of Nour’s resignation letter), more authoritative than the secondhand Canary writeup also cataloged in this library (ID 3568). Key claims made in the letter itself (advocacy-framed, not neutral, so treat as the organizing campaign’s own characterization): Israeli military use of Microsoft AI for surveillance-data translation/transcription/search allegedly increased 64x in the first 6 months of the war; Microsoft hosted ~11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone call data (~200 million hours) across Netherlands and Ireland data centers (per Guardian reporting, August 6, 2025); the letter alleges Microsoft moved the data to its Israel data center between the August 6 exposure and August 15 investigation announcement, which NOAA characterizes as concealment from European regulators; the Irish data center also allegedly hosts the “Al-Munasseq” app used in Israel’s Palestinian permit/movement-control system. Also documents a concrete campaign win: Microsoft ended a contract with Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200 following August 2025 worker/community protests at Microsoft HQ. For BPA purposes: this is the correct source to cite for the letter’s exact text and NOAA’s own framing; cite the underlying Guardian/972mag reporting (referenced via noaa.cc links within this letter) for the more independently-verified factual claims about the data volumes and transfer allegations.