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.
“You may protest and boycott but only in ways that don’t impact me”
No
You can protest all you want. I’m telling you to get a life and stop trying to ruin people’s lives over small perceived slights. This is not something that warrants protests, a guy went to the beach. Let it slide, this is not a hill to die on, this is not the fight you need.
There are actual issues that require protests, can we focus on that?