Supporters of Palestine have called to boycott the payment platform Stripe after its CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison - an Irish-American billionaire who has advocated for Palestinians in the past - posted on social media on Wednesday about his run on the beach in Tel Aviv and how it was "great" to be back.
Many responded to his post on X by pointing out that he was only thirty minutes away from the Gaza Strip. Conservative estimates say nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza and two million have been under constant Israeli aggression as they fight what UN experts have called "'deliberate starvation".
Some drew comparisons to the Academy Award-winning film, Zone of Interest, which depicts the everyday lives of Germans who lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.
"Just calm down" is better articulated as, "stop saying things that make me feel uncomfortable feelings."
The rhetoric of manipulation and abusers.
You're literally putting words in my mouth here.
No, I'm telling these people to actually calm down as they are making a huge fuss over something very small, demanding that other make sacrifices to satisfy their own want.
None of this will bring Palestine back. The US voted trump, so Palestine will be pretty much gone anyway, but I hear few screeching about that part.
This guy visiting beach and because of that I'm supposed to make sacrifices? Get a life
I think my point stands.
That I'm an abuser because I don't agree with you?
Great point