Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing

Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become the latest tech giants to withdraw from this year's Web Summit, following comments made by chief executive Paddy Cosgrave on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Google was one of the event's sponsors, while Nick Clegg, Facebook's president of global affairs, was due to speak at the Lisbon event.

The departures were preceded by Intel and Siemens, who said on Thursday that they would no longer participate in the November gathering.

“We will no longer have a presence at Web Summit” Google said in a statement on Friday.

In a post a week ago on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Cosgrave said he was “shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland's Government, who for once are doing the right thing. War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.”...

Amazon is latest tech giant to pull out of Web Summit over Cosgrave comments

What is Web Summit?

https://websummit.com

That is all the research I am doing on this.

Some article I found about PR re:Israel/Palestine while trying to find a complete list of companies/figures who have pulled out

https://fortune.com/2023/10/19/web-summit-paddy-cosgrave-fallout-israel-hamas-comments-case-study

Pretty interesting article but here is a funny if you don't feel like reading it

Starbucks, which is among the companies on Sonnenfeld's list, has found itself embroiled in a dispute with the Workers United union after a union account tweeted “Solidarity with Palestine!” on Oct. 9. Starbucks sued the Workers United for trademark infringement for using its green logo in the tweet. Workers United, which said workers tweeted the message without union authorization, countersued Starbucks for defamation.

Approximate list of companies who have pulled out

Google, Meta, Amazon, Siemens, Intel, Stripe, Orange Site

Apparently the Summit is funded by Qatar

https://x.com/garrytan/status/1713937044798603313

Some orange site discussion, seems like no one is really talking about it

For the 90% of you who don't or can't read articles (literacy is hard), a summary:

For Bibi's whole career he's been actively supporting Hamas. This is according to his left-wing critics, his right-wing critics, members of his own party, and occasionally himself. (Btw Ha'aretz if you're not able to guess from context clues is the most prestigious newspaper in Israel going back generations.)

Your average Ha'aretz reader.

His idea is that the real enemy is Fatah (aka the Palestinian Authority, aka the PLO) and Abu Mazen (aka Mahmoud Abbas). If Fatah can reestablish control over Gaza and unite the Palestinian people then there will be pressure from the US to make peace and give up parts of the West Bank. But as long as Hamas exists, he can fall back on the old Israeli talking points. "We want to negotiate, but there's nobody who represents their side." "They don't recognize our right to exist."

So what has Bibi done to help Hamas? He's kicked the shit out of their rivals in Fatah at every opportunity. He's vetoed assassinating Hamas terrorists. Oh yeah, and he's LET QATAR DELIVER LITERAL SUITCASES FULL OF CASH to Hamas.

Artist's rendition of how Hamas has been funded.

Remember a week ago when the rightoids were frothing about how Biden had funded the operation by "giving" $6 billion to Iran? And then it turned out Iran hadn't gotten a penny. And even if they did, they would have sent it to Gaza in the suitcases full of cash that Bibi let them bring in.

So unironically the man most responsible for bankrolling the October 7 massacre was Bibi. He's gonna get voted out and go to prison. Total Chud Death.

He's in close contact with Hammas and in the process of negotiating "a lot more than a ceasefire." Potential Shaun King counter-offensive?

The worst part of this atrocity will no doubt be the impairment of us taking the moral high-ground during internet arguments with strangers.

!jidf

I haven’t seen such relentless interrogation of Palestinian leadership before, esp. in Arabic.

On Saudi Arabia’s main TV channel, Hamas leader is clearly startled by the intensity of the questions & responses to his answers.pic.twitter.com/mj5r2bTXyc Crucial points in next tweets

— Hassan I. Hassan (@hxhassan) October 20, 2023

Context

Despite their official pronouncements and what their people want, Arab governments have been gradually abandoning Palestine. Saudi Arabia was the last major Arab power to hold out. This March, however, even they began normalizing relations with Israel.

It is unclear how the 2023 Israel–Hamas war has affected Israel-Saudi Arabia relationships. This interview hints that Saudi Arabia is big mad at Gaza and will continue to normalize relations with Israel.

@Aswangactor0 correct me if I'm wrong

because it proves that Israel isn't actually willing to bomb hospitals full of hamas enjoyers

Or at least that's what reddit said. I'm not clicking that shit

I was really worried about this. 😔 With great sadness, I have now confirmed that several of my relatives (including Viola and Yara pictured here) were killed at Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, where they had been sheltering, when part of the complex was destroyed as… pic.twitter.com/w5k1xEeTgF

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) October 20, 2023

An Al Jazeera digital investigation found no grounds for the Israeli army's claim that the strike on the al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza was caused by a failed rocket launch. pic.twitter.com/DQsrBXfwmL

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 19, 2023

Apparently the Jews did it and the hospital was blown up

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/17cf3m1/lmao

The X post that garnered controversy among Thomson's colleagues and appears to have played a role in his suspension involves his reply to another X post by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs that claimed babies had been beheaded and women r*ped during the Hamas attack on several communities in southern Israel.

"No babies were beheaded, there have been no confirmed reports of r*pes. You repeat this nonsense out of racism," Thomson wrote on Oct. 10. "In the meantime, Palestinians are experiencing genocide and war crimes and you are silent. History will judge you very badly."

In response to Thomson's post, a doctor at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital (whose X account is now deleted) accused him of denying the Holocaust, and another Ontario doctor criticized him publicly for denying "the trauma of the victims of these unspeakable crimes."

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Dr. Tarek Loubani, who works at London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ont., has known Thomson for more than a decade — both have worked in Gaza for periods of time, and Loubani was among 19 medics shot by the Israeli military in Gaza in 2018.

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Loubani said the swift action by the hospital is a rare occurrence reserved for egregious circumstances.

"The only time we ever see these sudden-death suspensions is when there's a criminal charge on a serious criminal offence, [like] sexual assault, murder, attempted murder," he said. "What I fear for other physicians is that they'll see Dr. Thomson's case, and they'll think to themselves, 'This means I should never say anything.'"

The AP piece now seems to have removed the top two of these highlighted paragraphs. https://t.co/vl5yMVuYSr pic.twitter.com/3uQ5a9vJo9

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) October 20, 2023