End tech's support of genocide
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Genocide VC retweeted
Meta employees publish an open letter to management (see below) to show how meta has promoted the genocide. This is how the suppression happens
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Genocide VC retweeted
Launching a new initiative today: Tech For Palestine
Over 40 tech folks – founders, engineers, product, marketers – working to change tech. Join us!
blog.paulbiggar.com/tech-for…
Genocide VC retweeted
.@paulbiggar I don’t know how to say thank you to you. Being a founder in tech, many of us exactly felt the way you shared your experience. I am so grateful that you penned it down.
I agree, we should never pitch, never recommend and never make an intro to invest in, @sequoia @firstround @BessemerVP @Redpoint @BillAckman @shaunmmaguire @wolfejosh and Sheryl Sandberg of the world. Not only them but we should have a list of those who retweeted their dehumanizing rhetoric and all those who tweeted about Oct 7th but since then are silent. You all have been whitewashing a killing.
“When you read about the Holocaust and the Nazis, you like to imagine you'd be the good guy. You'd fight the Nazis, you'd free the concentration camps. But apparently I wouldn't. Apparently I would have just sat there paralyzed, incapable of doing anything about the genocide I see every day. Unable to think of any way to help. All I can do is retweet and protest and write a stupid blog post. I feel so stupid.
The propaganda is real, and organized, and obvious. Posting about antisemitism in universities to cover indiscriminate bombing of civilians -- have you no shame.”
blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-s…
Genocide VC retweeted
This morning my lawyers wrote to @BessemerVP partner Amit Karp. If he fails to take action he will be pursued in the High Court of Ireland.
Last Friday’s revelations by two US investigative journalists, @lhfang & Jack Poulson, make clear that there was a coordinated attempt to smear me and the company I founded, Web Summit.
Genocide VC retweeted
I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.
blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-s…
Genocide VC retweeted
I’m back.
Thank you to everyone for their kind messages of love & support ❤️✌🏼
@lhfang & Jack Poulson’s reporting is quite something. The last 24 hours have been wild.
Genocide VC retweeted
Refaat Alareer, a brave anti-Zionist who had also become a personal friend of mine over the past month, was killed today by Zionist terrorism.
His activism won't be forgotten. I remember when our account only had 10k followers, he reached out and encouraged me to keep pushing forward; reminding me how important our cause is. Even from our short conversation, I could tell he was a genuinely caring and righteous person.
I promise to keep going, no matter how tough it gets or how many threats come my way, to keep his legacy alive.
I dedicate this page to him.
Genocide VC retweeted
Nobody should be silenced or cancelled for expressing concern for the plight of Palestinians.
Genocide VC retweeted
Me too. I wouldn't call it energizing, exactly, but there is a sort of n=1 version of the Streisand effect, where trying to prevent me from speaking about something just makes me pay more attention to it.
Genocide VC retweeted
This vastly underestimates the actual money & energy directed at silencing those who dare to show humanity towards Palestinians (let alone being one).
I’ve been on the receiving end of attacks for the past few weeks from all angles… and it’s energizing! 10/10 would do it again.
Genocide VC retweeted
Enough is enough.
@RBatniji is a founder in our community right here in Silicon Valley.
Every startup founder
Every executive
Every venture fund partnership
needs to speak up, put out a statement, and demand a ceasefire right now.
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Genocide VC retweeted
Absolutely disgusting genocidal rhetoric from someone who apparently works in the VC world.
Genocide VC retweeted
We thank @shaunmmaguire for his statement, and ask that he condemns Israel for "breaking his heart" x 10,000
End venture capital's support of genocide
genocide.vc/meet-shaun-magui…
I just learned about some new dumb thing called "genocide.vc"
TO BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR IT BREAKS MY HEART WHEN INNOCENT CIVILIANS DIE
I have said this repeatedly over the last month
But simultaneously HAMAS IS EVIL
Attacks like this won't silence me
Genocide VC retweeted
There is this website call, ‘Genocide VC’ that is keeping records of tech VC’s tweets that incite hate, racism and genocide.
genocide.vc/
This is the about page..
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“We call on all participants in the venture funded economy to end the support of genocide.
To employees, ask hard questions of the founders and leadership. Do they support terrorism? Do they support genocide? Is your pay check tainted in blood?
To founders, ask the hard questions of your current and future investors. Do they support terrorism? Do they support genocide? Do they support or fund regimes who drop bombs on innocent civilians? Is your cap table tainted in blood?
To general partners and venture firms, we ask you to look within your partnerships. Do your partners hold the same values that you hold? Do your partners incite violence with their words? Do your partners support and fund genocide? Do your firm's stated values align with your own? Is your carry tainted in blood?
To limited partners and investors, we ask that you hold the funds, venture firms, and limited partners that you invest in, to account. Do your limited partners incite violence with their words? Do your limited partners support genocide? Is your money being used to fund genocide? Are your returns tainted in blood?
Violence, terrorism, genocide, and the apathy for human life regardless of race, colour, nor religion, should have zero space in our economy.
We ask that you hold those around you to account.”
@GenocideVC
Genocide VC retweeted
No. Sorry. They are not “collateral damage” they are human beings who happen to have been born there and live there and most of those human beings are stuck there. Have some compassion, they are Palestinians not buildings or roads or things, they are human beings and so are the hostages whose lives you may also be destroying. They aren’t “collateral damage” either.
“Netanyahu Calls Palestinians ‘Collateral Damage’ As Israel Destroys Gaza”
huffpost.com/entry/benjamin-…
Genocide VC retweeted
Muslims have been sitting side-by-side with VCs and the big names in tech for years. But we always had to downplay our beliefs or watch how we frame what we stood for. We always had to prove that we are peaceful.
We are now being persecuted by those same people we sat with for years -- if we support a ceasefire, or show any support towards Palestine, it's labeled antisemitism.
Now they are posting anti-islamic rhetoric, mocking us, while in another lens quietly flying to the Middle East for LP money. This moment in history, while we watch a genocide play out in real time, will also be a moment for a tech uprising.
I have been calling the New World Order -- as the power in tech is no longer in the hands of a few in Silicon Valley. The power is spread throughout the world, if we lose opportunities here, we can find new opportunities elsewhere, with people who share the same values.
The people of Palestine need our support now more than ever. We cannot continue to let those in power spread false narratives, silence us, kill us, and then decide they are ready for "dialogue".
We don't need to accept blood money anymore to run our startups. It's time to build -- elsewhere.
Genocide VC retweeted
Larry Fink, Chairman & CEO of BlackRock (the world’s largest asset manager), cancelled a trip to Kuwait last month after being advised by Kuwaiti authorities not to apply for a visit visa following public comments he made re: Israel.
Genocide VC retweeted
I have made the decision to divest from any Israeli businesses within my portfolio c.(£500m), along with arms companies. This is not an act of virtue signalling. I am taking a stand and am in last stage discussions with a consortium of other family offices to follow suit which they are very keen to do, representing a combined AUM of over €4 billion.
For the record we will all lose hedge and take a hit financially. Again some things more important to me, namely integrity.