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“Pro-Israeli investors have created a culture of fear in #tech where supporters of Palestinian freedom feel unable to raise their voices. I have spoken to many people in tech who are afraid that if they speak up, they’ll be unable to raise their next round, and lose 5-10 years of work on their venture, for their families and for their employees.
We must break the silence around the genocide in Gaza…we cannot continue to be complicit in this genocide.”
@aral What's really funny though is that the Chinese Communist Party does this across more than just tech sectors where people / corporations are threatened with state sanctioned boycotts of their brands for speaking up for human rights in China. But yet very few people seem to bring that up in the context of needing to "break the silence".
If you want to "break the silence", then you have to have to do that for all similar situations.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".
@aral *Everybody* is afraid to voice support of the Palestinian people - including #politicians & #ThePress.
It's highly problematic, made even moreso by the fact that those same entities feel the exact opposite way about expressing criticism (and much, much worse) directed against arabic people, readily & uncriticlly framing anyone fitting into that demographic and/or a sweeping categorization of "muslims" as anything from generally unvicilized to straight-up terrorists...