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.
Dude just accidentally visited a beach. A mistake anyone could make. Get over it. I myself have accidentally just walked down a beach which may have been in a country actively committing genocide and I may have had to make the conscious decision to fly to said country and ignore everything about it, and my money may have been helping to fund said genocide and whitewash the actions but like it’s just a minor mistake. Can easily happen. It’s just an accident bro.