Jim Rose, ceo of CircleCI, responded by pointing out on social media that “Paul does not speak on behalf of” the San Francisco-based company, which he declared was “committed to our customers in Israel and around the world”. Soon afterwards, however, Rose posted: “Effective December 22, Paul Biggar is no longer a director at CircleCI. We thank him for his contributions on the board and wish him the best for what’s next.”
> Tech For Palestine (Twitter, Github) is a collection of over 40 tech founders, engineers, marketers, community builders, and investors, working towards ending tech's support for Israel's war on the Palestinian people across Gaza and the West Bank, and working towards a free Palestine.
Establishing a free Palestine is less about fighting Israel / empowering Palestinians, and more about getting foreign influence in the middle-east to want peace. At Camp David, the reason Arafat gave for rejecting the peace deal was that other Arab countries did not want to share Jerusalem with Israel. The majority of Palestinians supported the peace deal.
It is shocking to me that the terms "genocide", "apartheid", and "terrorism" are seen by neutral parties as any way inaccurate in the Palestinian context. Sure anyone can argue these are inflammatory or choose not to use the terms personally, but they are indisputably semantically accurate terms.
i think the opposite. ita shocking people do consider it genocide.
israels target is not civilians. if it wanted to, the death toll would be 100x.
even more, you don't get a breakdown of civilians to hamas casualties so everyone thinks they are all civilians.
on the other hand, you did see hamas kill, rape, mutilate and kidnap (still didn't release the majority) and state they want to kill all jews. that... sounds like genocide.
Genocide has a very specific meaning and you don't have to kill a single person to be committing it. Whether that applies to Israel in Gaza I couldn't say as IANAL. I would hazard no. However, it might be yes - they are levelling the city and leaving the people alive and that could count as destroying the culture.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645523
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38744050
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741160
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847523
Most are flagged. This one will probably be next if popular. Dang did explain it in the last one, and I respect his position.