Indie developer removes their game from Xbox stores in solidarity with pro-Palestine boycott
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Summary
Indie video game Tenderfoot Tactics has been removed from the Xbox Store in an act of solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Microsoft and its alleged links with the Israeli military.
Developer badru announced the decision on Bluesky, explaining that Microsoft’s relationship with the Israeli military amounted to open genocide and urging the company to sever all business ties with the Israeli military.
The BDS movement claims Microsoft is the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime against Palestinian citizens.
This comes after Microsoft fired two software engineers who protested the company’s business with the Israeli military.
-Gazaza’s Ministry of Health puts the current Palestinian death toll at more than 50,000 since October 7th, 2023.
Israel disputes this figure. widespread allegations of human rights abuses and possible war crimes committed by Israel during the conflict.
Calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israeli organisations have increased in response. These allegations have also prompted a review of the UK’s longstanding arms trade with Israel.
