More than 100 Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony on Sunday to protest Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Videos posted on social media showed students leaving their seats at Stanford Stadium while chanting “Free, free Palestine.”
Others booed and shouted “shame on you” as Pichai addressed the crowd.
The protest was organized by groups including Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid.
Pichai, a Stanford alumnus who earned a master’s degree in materials science and engineering in 1995, was selected earlier this year to deliver the keynote address at the university’s 135th commencement ceremony.
Many of the protesting graduates carried Palestinian flags as they exited the stadium, turning what is traditionally one of the university’s most celebratory events into a political demonstration.
The protest centered on Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing and artificial intelligence contract jointly held with Amazon that provides services to the Israeli government.
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