Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave resigns over Israel ‘war crimes’ post
Paddy Cosgrave received a wave of backlash over his public comments accusing Israel of breaching international law.
Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave [File: Pedro Nunes/Reuters]
Published On 22 Oct 2023
The CEO of a leading technology conference has stepped down after a wave of backlash over public statements he made accusing Israel of committing “war crimes” and breaching international law.
Paddy Cosgrave, a co-founder of the European tech conference Web Summit which brings together thousands of leading tech startups and firms in Lisbon, Portugal, resigned on Saturday after receiving blowback from sponsors and attendees. He said his personal views had become a “distraction from the event” and apologised for “any hurt” he had caused.
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Cosgrave, an Irish entrepreneur who founded Web Summit in 2009, took to the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to weigh in on Israel’s ongoing bombing campaign in Gaza, which local authorities say has so far killed more than about 4,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and devastated much of the territory’s infrastructure.
“I’m shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing,” Cosgrave said in his post on October 13. “War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.”
Two days later, Cosgrave updated his tweet to also condemn Hamas’s October 7 onslaught on Israel, which killed some 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians, calling it “outrageous”, “disgusting” and “an act of monstrous evil”
He added: “Israel has a right to defend itself, but it does not, as I have already stated, have a right to break international law.”
So too the open threatening of the Yale graduates career path by the Wall Street hyenas I've their voicing of the Israeli atrocities in Gaza Strip!
ReplyDeleteLike most Leftie Wankers Paddy Cosgrave considered the butchering of Israelis as "deserved" and only condemned it days later as an afterthought when he received sever public criticism.
ReplyDeleteSo, mfer, what about the butchering of the Gazans?
ReplyDeleteYr f*cked retribution!