Koraitem

I. BACKGROUND

1 Defendant hired Plaintiff in 2016 as a Senior Manager of Defendant’s Applications 2 Engineering Group. Fact No. 1. Between October 7 and October 10, 2023, Plaintiff made several 3 public social media posts and sent one email regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict that he alleges 4 ultimately led to his termination. 5 In the early morning of October 7, 2023,2 Plaintiff posted: “October 7 2023 is a big day!” 6 See Fact No. 8.3 The parties refer to this as the “big day” post. Plaintiff testified that news 7 coverage of the October 7 attack evolved throughout the day, and he made this post only after 8 receiving information that the barricade between Israel and Palestine had been breached, but 9 before knowing the details of Hamas’s responsibility in the breach and the violence that followed. 10 Pl.’s Resp. to Fact No. 8. Plaintiff believed the breach of the barricade was akin to the fall of the 11 Berlin wall and an opportunity for more peaceful relations. Id. In the days following, Plaintiff 12 made several additional posts at issue, including: statistics comparing the Israeli and Palestinian 13 death tolls; a post criticizing the concept of Zionism; a…