Irish-American billionaire Patrick Collison is under fire after posting on X about his run in Tel Aviv, not far from Gaza war

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.

  • forensic_potato@lemmy.world
    111·
    5 days ago

    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

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      212·
      4 days ago

      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.