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.
Auschwitz alone killed some 15.000 per day, every day at the height of it.
Yeah, Gaza is abhorrent, noone will deny that. You comparing Gaza to the Holocaust as being 1:1 is just you not having the first clue of how fucking efficient the Nazis were in comparison to what Israel is doing.
Yeah, Netanyahu deserves to be hung, nothing less, but your comparison is dumb
They're starting with a smaller population in Gaza, but the most recent estimate from June had the death toll at more than 186,000 people. They're not just blowing people up, they're sniping them with drones, they're starving them to death by blocking aid, they're depriving them of medicine and water and sanitation, they're making hospitals nonfunctional, they've made 2+ million people homeless as we're heading into another winter. It's a fucking nightmare, easily comparable to the Holocaust.
The methods are similar and the goals are similar.
Not only does Netanyahu deserve to be hung, so do all the Nazis in his army.