Meta y Google they left from Web Summit one of the biggest annual events in the technology sector, after the organizer criticized the reaction of Israel after attacks on Hamas the companies said on Friday, reported The Times of Israel.
A spokesperson for Meta confirmed by AFP who will not participate in this year’s event.
“We no longer have a presence Web Summit” said a spokesman for the Google.
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The Irish businessman Paddy Cosgrave co-founder of Web Summit wrote last week on the social media platform X that he was “shocked by the rhetoric and actions of many Western leaders and governments.”
“War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and must be reported for what they are,” he wrote. Cosgrave on October 13.
The others 2,500 Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip They entered Israel by land, air and sea on October 7, killing several 1,400 people and getting between 200 and 250 hostages of all ages under the cover of a massive rocket launch against Israeli cities and communities. The majority of those killed when armed men occupy border communities are civilians: men, women, children and the elderly, with entire families killed in their homes and more than 260 died in an open-air festival, many of them among the terrible acts of brutality of terrorists.
The Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas says more than 4,100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the attack Hamas. The numbers released by the terrorist group cannot be independently verified and are believed to include its own fighters and victims of an explosion at a hospital in the city of Gaza on October 17 due to a misfire of a missile from Islamic Jihad WHAT Hamas attributed to Israel.
The boycott of Meta y Google following other exits from tech companies and figures, including Intel, Siemens and the American comedian Amy Poehler and the X-Files actress Gillian Anderson.
the Web Summit will host about 2,300 startups and more than 70,000 people from November 13 to 16 in Lisbon.
Silicon Valley’s number, Garry Tan from startup sponsor Y-Combinator, initially started the boycott and was soon followed by other big names in the industry.
Cosgrave He apologized on Tuesday.
“I understand that what I said, the time I said it and the way I presented it caused great pain to many. To anyone who was offended by my words, I apologize,” he said.
“What is needed now is mercy, and I have not expressed it,” the statement said.
Cosgrave said it condemned “unequivocally” the “vile, despicable and horrific” attack on Hamas CON Israel and “undoubtedly” supports “the right to Israel to exist and protect themselves.”
He said the same Israel must follow the Geneva Conventions“that is, not committing war crimes.”
