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.
Alright, then they’ll just have to stop consuming a lot of things they buy online. Also they can’t buy from places that use Stripe terminals. I’d like to see an entire group of people get up from their lounges and buy grocery in person because their local home grown market with home delivery uses stripe checkout.
Boycots are not only for consumers. They can also be implemented by vendors. Stripe is a large company, but it has competitors.
Yeah, and as a company owner I now I have to invest good amounts of money to switch providers? Spend development resources, administrative resources and whatnot to make a switch because the guy made a tweet you don’t like? And what do I do if the next providers’s CEO does something you don’t like?
Come on, this nonsense has to stop
Him visiting a beach in Israel isn’t the same as him saying “kill all the Palestinians”. This extreme knee jerk reaction is what has caused so much shit already, can we please PLEASE just stop it?
Reply with a tweet that maybe he is a bit insensitive, and please let it be done with that. This screeching isn’t solving anything, it isn’t helping Palestinians, it’s just making life miserable for more people.
Just calm down
Isn’t it enough for you simply to not participate? What’s your actual problem with other people doing it?
What’s your actual problem with other people doing it?
Those people make the previous user feel bad for doing nothing against a genocide.
But instead of learning from this and be better, they chose to label it as pointless
Make you feel bad?
You want a person’s life ruined, you want a company gone, hundreds of jobs gone, you want me ruined, all because a guy went to visit the wrong beach and tweeted about it, and me? I’m disagreeing with you, that’s wrong think!
I know there is a genocide going on, everyone does. Of course I’m against it, most sane people are. This tweet is insensitive, sure, but that is a discussion to be had. Unfortunately, current generations don’t have conversations anymore, we go knee jerk straight into trying to ruin people’s lives. This is not the first nor the last. This attempt surely will fail, but I know loads of people whose lives were ruined because of some tiny perceived slight.
Stop this madness
You’re not the good guy here, you’re the bad guy. You’re the reason so many people are done with this nonsense and walk over to right wing politics because there they can usut have a nice day without worrying about every single step they take that might destroy their lives. I’m serious, Ive heard too many trump voters complain about exactly this. You make people vote trump, please for the love of God, stop it.
The guy did something insensitive. Tell him it was rather insensitive, and continue your life. He’s not the reason for the genocide, he’s not supporting it, he’s just a guy who went to the wrong beach FFS.
