The Israeli Defense Tech Conference, aimed at tech companies working with the Israeli military, was scheduled for November at the Google for Startups campus in Tel Aviv.
The event, according to a listing posted on the event RSVP app Luma, was pitched at “founders, investors and innovators” looking to network and learn more about the defense tech space. It was co-sponsored by Google, Fusion Venture Capital, Genesis, a startup accelerator, and the Israeli military’s research and development arm, known as the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D, or Ma’fat).
When The Intercept contacted Google, the event page disappeared.
Google was not only listed as the physical host of the event and one of its sponsors, but the event listing also included a notice that attendees “approve of sharing [their] details with the organizers (Fusion & Google)” as part of signing up.
When The Intercept contacted Google, as well as the other companies and venture capital firms on the event page, the event page disappeared.
Let me guess… they’re still having the meeting, it’s just that the pages are removed…
i wish journalists were real and could go check
Naaah, that would take effort.
“Let’s be Evil”
“Together”
-Google
I don’t understand why companies have such a hard on for Israel. This is nuts. They’re literally committing genocide, and people are just shrugging at it.
Same reason Siemens, Volkswagen, Bayer, and many more, including a ton of American ones were onboard with the Holocaust.
Genocide is good for business.
I don’t understand how genocide is good for business, but I’ll take your word for it.
You don’t understand what a mass surveillance company selling personal details, including location, relationships, search history, and more, on everyone on earth, would sell to people doing a genocide?
Probably tacos.
Genuinely it’s money. Israel, and most importantly Zionist supporters of Israel, have access to ridiculous amounts of investment funding. Most western billionaires and venture capitalists are Zionist in their personal lives for whatever reason. It’s why the BDS movement isn’t really going to affect Israel.
I was reading an article about it after I asked this question. Apparently, the U.S. thinks they are strategically important to maintain access to oil in the region. Always comes back to oil… 😒
Alexander Haig:
Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.
No they need a location the USA can safely use. Any country they go to hates them except for Israel in the Middle East. Nobody but Israel even wants them there in the first place.
https://www.meetup.com/fusion-la-israel/events/303578537/?eventOrigin=group_events_list
The meetup page is still up but Google Startups has been stripped from the image.
https://lu.ma/Israeli-Defense-Tech-Conf-Fusion-Google-Mafat
Also, the original page still shows up in Google searches, but was not archived on archive.org and I have been unable to find Google’s cached version of the page. Although they obviously have a cached version since the text is visible as a preview of what’s on the page.
Stay classy, Google.
Google removed their search cached pages, unfortunately
I was under the impression you could still do a
cache:url
style search, but it seems impossible.They’re caching them, they’re just not sharing that with the public anymore. I know it has a cache because the Google result shows a bunch of text from the page that no longer exists. That “preview” text is pulled from a cache if the “new” page is resulting in a 404. I was hoping there some way for users to still access it, even if esoterically, but even those options seem unavailable.
God, I hate that. I find search results all the time (that don’t involve google) that are now completely different :/
Like… I was looking for that specific search.
Reminded my of what happened at the MindTheTech conference half a year ago.
https://peervideo.club/w/p/i4BetLY7RZa5yeNLJriXPW?playlistPosition=3
Genocide profiteering … do no evil