An Amazon executive wore a necklace in a company video that featured a pendant in the shape of the map of Israel with a Palestinian flag imposed on top of it — sparking outrage on social media, with users vowing to cancel their Prime subscriptions and demanding that the executive be fired.
Ruba Borno, who holds the title of vice president of specialists and partners at cloud computing division Amazon Web Services, is seen in an official company video touting a company conference set to take place later in the fall in Las Vegas.
The map that was dangling from Borno’s necklace encompasses what is today Israel as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip — territories that the Palestinians have demanded as the basis for an independent state.
Amazon said it has taken down the video.
“The video shot was not meant to be a political statement, but we’ve taken down the video and will repost a new one in the coming days,” an Amazon spokesperson told The Post.
Several X accounts sympathetic to Israel took screenshots of the video and shared them with thousands of other users who accused Borno of seeking Israel’s destruction by establishing a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”
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