Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון
Reminder that Wix is an Israeli company and should be boycotted (some of my Israeli friends have worked for Wix over the years but it is what it is 🤷🏻♀️)
There are plenty of other options to build websites that aren't Israeli: WordPress, SquareSpace, etc.
Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון
Someone asked me why, specifically, we should boycott Wix:
Because tech is the backbone of the Israeli economy. Tech companies, like the rest of Israeli society, benefit from occupation and apartheid (cheap land, cheap labor, quasi-free natural resources, security contracts with Israel's security establishment, engineers trained in the army, etc).
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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון
Unless a company has taken an explicit stance against occupation, and described how it divests from or refuses to collaborate with apartheid, then it must be assumed to collaborate and benefit from the oppression of Palestinians, and must be boycotted.
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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון
Finally, the BDS movement, which is a Palestinian-led grassroots movement with overwhelming support in Palestinian society, is asking us to boycott the Israeli economy. I believe that it is our duty, if we want to be in solidarity with Palestinians, to respect this wish.
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Aral Balkan
@ebbi @raph Alt text: THE IRISH TIMES
An Israeli software company that employs 500 staff in Dublin encouraged its employees to create content supporting "Israel's narrative" in the country's conflict with Hamas militants in Gaza, leaked internal messages show. (1/3)
ebbi
@raph and the lengths it goes to, to appeal to Westerners, through a bit of racism:
Aral Balkan
One message in an internal company discussion, set up by a manager in the days after the Hamas attack in southern Israel, encouraged employees to "show Westernity" in social media posts backing Israel, as "unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans or Americans", it said.
The message was one of several circulated to Wix employees on Slack, a messaging app used by the company to communicate internally, seen by The Irish Times. (2/3)
Aral Balkan
Wix, a tech company that provides a platform for people to build websites, has had an office in Ireland since 2018. (3/3)
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