The Ireland-based conferencing company, Web Summit, says 'only a very small number' of people have cancelled plans to attend their upcoming event in Lisbon, despite an open letter being published in which 300 Israeli entrepreneurs called for a boycott.
The Ireland-based technology conferencing company, Web Summit , says"only a very small number" of people have cancelled plans to attend their upcoming event in Lisbon , despite an open letter being published in which 300 Israeli entrepreneurs called for a boycott.On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that German Economy Minister Robert Habeck cancelled his scheduled appearance, in the wake of the open letter.
"All of us, all the industry, was so shocked. I know that some are still going there, but so many cancelled their participation," Mr Bruner, founder and CEO of HeritageCube, a personal data cloud storage company, told Prime Time. A message Mr Cosgrave posted on X about the response of Western leaders to the Israeli campaign concluded"war crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are".
The suggestion of any proximity between the actions of Hamas and those of the Israeli military sparked rage in Israel, a country known for its vibrant tech start-ups and investment, the very market for Mr Cosgrave’s Web Summit. "First, what Hamas did is outrageous and disgusting. It is by every measure an act of monstrous evil. Israel has a right to defend itself, but it does not, as I have already stated, have a right to break international law," he said.
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