The students rejected internships and jobs at these companies because they provided Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services and infrastructure to the Israeli government.
As Wired noted, applicants included undergraduate and graduate students from Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University.
However, Google claims that the Nimbus contract does not include “highly sensitive, classified or military workloads related to weapons or intelligence services.”
Source: Ferra
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