An Irish-American fintech company is facing boycott threats after its CEO posted a picture from the Tel Aviv beachfront. Entrepreneur Patrick Collison, the CEO of the payment processor Stripe, posted on X on Wednesday, “Great to be back in Tel Aviv. I missed this run,” alongside a photograph of the Tayelet.
By Friday morning, Collison’s tweet had been viewed nearly eight million times and had 3,000 comments, with a strew of users calling for the payment processing platform, one largest private fintech companies in the world, to be boycotted.
X users commented that Collison was an “immoral business owner” and supported “an apartheid state carrying out genocide.” “Disgraceful and these cruel tech bros don’t speak for the Irish people,” said one post, while another claimed the photograph of Tel Aviv depicted “occupied Palestine.”
